7 10 286 https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/36fc8af4779bf17fa04f3f46b591547e.png bd94f28a2c9de37ca7eccf39e465c139 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Evelina Haverfield circa 1910. Photograph by Lena Connell courtesy The Women's Library at LSE. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/e2ceb1ef5326dd5360c95392875bce85.jpg e938f20444bae6e20cbe3eb8f4c9353c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Evelina Haverfield in Court seated next to WSPU leader Mrs Pankhurst, 1909. Courtesy The Women's Library at LSE. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/1e619fbc813c4eee8ae3dc0cb501242c.png a709e9b77872711801d363ecea98ee4f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Evelina's 'Peace Cottage' in Brendon, North Devon, used by she and Vera Holme until Evelina's death in 1920. Source: https://www.geograph.org.uk/ https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/bc75aa4627b2b5d95323db92fec5d276.png 13b023759cd6c3624339d7687edff804 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Evelina Haverfield (centre) in SWH uniform, with Vera Holme (left), 1916. Courtesy The Women's Library at LSE. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/27287a856c1ee91aa9f873d384fb74b3.jpg a07ea631305640dbb35dcd7e16372cc2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Evelina's well tended grave in Bajina Bashta, Serbia. Source: https://ljwanderer.livejournal.com/229543.html?thread=1109671 Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation None Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 44 Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Married Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Peace Cottage, Brendon, North Devon. Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census WSPU Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Evades Biographical Text Evelina Haverfield (1867-1920) was born Evelina Scarlett in Scotland and was the youngest daughter of the 3rd Baron Abinger. The young Evelina was a keen horsewoman and in 1887 married Major Henry Haverfield, moved to Dorset, and had two sons. After her husband’s death in 1895, she remarried, spending two years with her husband in South Africa founding a retirement camp for abandoned horses while her sister, a qualified doctor, investigated conditions in British concentration camps for a commission headed by Mrs Millicent Fawcett, later leader of the NUWSS. However, her second marriage was not a happy one. Evelina had kept the Haverfield name from her first marriage, and after returning to Dorset, the couple drifted apart. Evelina was likely a member of the local NUWSS branch in Dorset from the 1890s, but in 1908 switched allegiance to the WSPU. She gave generously to the society as well as donating to others and took part in varied suffrage events and activities. For instance, she was involved in the NUWSS caravan campaign in June 1909, where her horsemanship proved invaluable dealing with the caravan carthorses. Later that month, she was arrested after taking part in the WSPU deputation from Caxton Hall to the House of Commons and was defended by (see) Lord Robert Cecil (MLWS). In 1910, she was a mounted marshal for the WSPU processions on the 18th of June and 22nd of July; riding alongside (see) Vera Holme with whom she became romantically involved for the rest of her life. In November, she was arrested and charged with assaulting a policeman during the violent scuffles that broke out at a suffragette protest dubbed ‘Black Friday’. She was reported to have said about striking the policeman: ‘It was not hard enough. Next time I will bring a revolver’. Her fine was paid without her consent so she did not go to prison, but she did serve two weeks imprisonment shortly afterwards for attempting to break through a police cordon during a bout of window smashing following the government’s torpedoing of the Conciliation bill. In 1914, Evelina left the WSPU and joined Sylvia Pankhurst’s breakaway society the East London Federation of the WSPU becoming honorary treasurer, and later joined the United Suffragists. At the outbreak of War, she helped launch the Women’s Emergency Corps; founded the Women’s Volunteer Reserve becoming Commandant; served briefly as Commander-in-chief of the Women’s Reserve Ambulance Corps (forerunner of the WAAC); and in 1915, spent two years in Serbia and Russia in charge of the transport column of the Scottish Women’s Hospital to which Vera Holme belonged as driver and mechanic. In 1918, she co-founded with Flora Sandes a fund for promoting comforts for Serbian soldiers and prisoners and returned to Serbia to found an orphanage, dying shortly afterwards of pneumonia in 1920. Upon her death, Vera Holme became administrator of the fund and home Evelina had founded for Serbian orphans and was granted £50 a year for life in Evelina’s will. In 1929, a new health centre was built in Evelina’s memory in Bajina Bashta, Serbia, where she is buried (see image), and a street has been dedicated to her. Main source: Elizabeth Crawford, The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928 (London, 1999). Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Evelina Haverfield (The Honourable) Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm POINT(-419761.4207545197 6660086.594315042) WSPU https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/cd5237a167eb303e2b53ce3e140d4b09.png dcb929e26366a3345d3a351f9228acf8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Vera ‘Jack’ Holme (left) with fellow performer in cross-dress, 1905. Courtesy of The Women's Library at LSE. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/6a7eb3bd652bf8a14440c5ad4d45b383.png 1d40020f5bbaeb493b36e6f992557fe4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Vera (left in seated centre group) with fellow suffragettes circa 1910. Courtesy The Women's Library at LSE. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/ab0a4c1edf2a43d78cb96df79880e638.png 39a266103ffece2efa001c32b14baa8e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Vera working as WSPU chauffeur circa 1910-11. Courtesy The Women's Library at LSE. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/cd96f321abc6ac257846db6beb5168a5.png a709e9b77872711801d363ecea98ee4f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Peace Cottage, Brendon, North Devon. Source: https://www.geograph.org.uk/ https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/fa1e26760121513500271dce9eff78d8.jpg f18bb04a875ff688ff566e9a19a68f07 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Acrostic love poem from Vera to 'Eve' Haverfield. Courtesy The Women's Library at LSE. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/bd716b31bfc89ef02c1e2883da54f090.png faba4bebdb40d90fd7a478b380fca5c1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Holloway Prison cell sketch by Vera after her arrest in 1911. Courtesy The Women's Library at LSE. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/bc18edc3cd453ca75fdd3d329099d46a.png 13b023759cd6c3624339d7687edff804 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Vera (left) and Evelina (centre) in SWH uniform, 1916. Courtesy The Women's Library at LSE. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/db1e5ee55dee42169c37f3f143033598.jpg 0090557c188dc16a583761562d3765bc Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Vera with artists Dorothy Johnstone & Anne Finlay. Courtesy The Women's Library at LSE. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/4722b25225b719040a5cb3de7d74e239.png 7e6c553540858514a8ec8b4f3983ad96 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Vera in her study, 1950. Courtesy The Women's Library at LSE. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation WSPU chauffeur Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 30 Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Single Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Peace Cottage, Brendon, North Devon Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census WSPU & AFL Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Evades Biographical Text Vera Holme (1881-1969) was born in Lancashire. She received a small allowance from her father, a timber merchant, but was required to make her own living. Little is known about her education, but she was an accomplished singer and violinist and set her mind to a career on stage. She decided to pursue life as an actor and singer and quickly made her name as ‘Jack’ Holme performing a popular cross-dressing music hall act (see images). At some point in 1908, Vera joined the suffrage movement, as part of the Actresses Franchise League (open to anyone involved with the theatrical profession) and the WSPU and was renowned for her feisty, irrepressible spirit. She was once described by Sylvia Pankhurst as ‘a noisy explosive young person, frequently rebuked by her elders for lack of dignity’. Little wonder then that later in the campaign, her fiery personality led her to join the Young Hot Bloods; a secretive society within the WSPU made up of younger members (aged under 30) who were fully prepared to undertake 'danger duty' for the WSPU and the cause. Vera took part in a variety of suffrage activities. In June 1909 on horseback, she presented the Prime Minister with a letter announcing the imminent arrival of a WSPU deputation. By August, she was chauffeur to WSPU’s leading figures Emmeline Pankhurst and Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence and wore a WSPU-coloured uniform and peaked cap. Vera was especially proud of an ‘act’ she carried out with (see) Elsie Howey in Bristol. There, the two hid inside a musical organ in Calston Hall ready for a meeting chaired by Liberal minister Augustine Birrell on Land Tax. During the meeting Vera and Elsie repeatedly shouted out 'Votes for women!' and it took bemused officials several minutes to discover the women’s hiding place. In 1911, Vera likely evaded the 1911 census as she does not appear in the record. She was sent to prison for five days for throwing stones in November that year following the government’s torpedoing of the Conciliation bill, at which time she was temporarily staying in London’s Buckingham-Gate, probably at number 24 with Mrs Adeline Cecil Chapman, suffrage supporter and mother to suffragette Mildred Mansel with whom Vera was friends. However, Vera had by then met and fell in love with fellow suffragette (see) the Honourable Evelina Haverfield who had purchased ‘Peace Cottage’ in Devon in 1910 where the couple are located on our map. Although they led peripatetic lives - like many suffragettes dwelling briefly in various places across the country - Peace Cottage remained a constant in their lives together until Evelina’s death in 1920. No letters survive, but glimpses of the couple’s romantic relationship can be found in a surviving acrostic poem written to Evelina by Vera (see image) and in Vera’s gift of a bed they slept in at Peace Cottage with their initials EH and VH carved on alternate sides. When War broke out in 1914, Vera joined the Women's Volunteer Reserve and served in the Transport Unit of the Scottish Women's Hospital (SWH). She oversaw horses and trucks and was said to be an excellent mechanic and Evelina worked with her as an SWH administrator and overseer of the transport unit. As a couple they became deeply concerned with the plight of the Serbian people during their war work. Vera became administrator of a fund and home Evelina had founded for Serbian soldiers and orphans upon her death in 1920 as well as receiving £50 a year for life in Evelina's will. Later, Vera lived in Scotland sharing a home with artists (see images) Dorothy Johnstone and Anne Finlay where she also rekindled her love of the theatre. She put on local plays in Scotland and at the Barn Theatre in Smallhythe, Kent, overseen by former suffrage campaigner, friend, playwright and performer, Edith Craig. Vera died in 1969. Sources: Elizabeth Crawford, The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928 (London: 1999); Women's Library at LSE Papers & resources, esp., https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsehistory/2017/03/15/vera-jack-holme-one-of-the-stars-of-the-womens-library-collection/ & https://artsandculture.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/exhibit/vera-jack-holme-lse-library/jQLSqKybfPY_Kw?hl=en Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Vera Holme Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm POINT(-419761.4207545197 6660086.594315042) WSPU https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/cdde124b9429c1a33939cd0c93b437a4.jpg c34a847de70c4cd0239354c438b7fb66 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Mary Benson's home at Tremans (or Treemans) Horsted Keynes, Sussex. Photograph taken 1932. Source: courtesy www.horstedkeynes.com https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/b5c910694d935f39895de3be9873f3ec.jpg 9e3a75e461eecc688ea8ba34ac866d5d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Mary Benson, Lucy Tait and others in Tremans garden. Source: courtesy www.horstedkeynes.com Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation None Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 70 Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Widow Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Tremans, Horsted Keynes, Sussex Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census CUWFA & NUWSS Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Complies Biographical Text Mary Benson (1841-1918) as the widow of Edward Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury, was as much solicited as was any titled lady to lend her name to suffragist organisations and causes. With her companion, Lucy Tait, daughter of her husband’s predecessor as Archbishop of Canterbury, she came to live at Tremans, Horsted Keynes, in 1899. In 1902, she was invited by Marie Corbett to speak on women’s suffrage at a Conference of the Sussex Union of Women’s Liberal Associations at Horsted Keynes. Sending apologies, she said that, had she been able to attend, she would have spoken on this subject as both she and the late Archbishop had the cause greatly at heart. The following year she was reported to be ‘taking up the claims of her sex’ regarding the proposed National Church Council. She objected to the decision to limit to men the right of voting for lay representatives to sit on this and urged ‘those who wished for a fair and representative franchise to do all in their power to bring home to Church people at large the gravity of the question’. When the Conservative and Unionist Women’s Franchise Association (CUWFA) was formed in 1909, Mary Benson joined ladies of the nobility, including Eleanor Cecil, as one of its Vice-Presidents. In 1911, she and Lucy Tait attended the meeting of the Horsted Keynes branch of the Central Sussex Women’s Suffrage Society addressed by Lady Betty Balfour, a fellow Vice-President of the CUWFA. Again, with Lady Eleanor Cecil, Mary Benson agreed to be named as one of a list of eminent patrons of two exhibitions staged in Haywards Heath by Central Sussex Suffragists: of Sweated Industries in 1912 and of Women’s Handicrafts in 1913. In April 1913, she and both Lord and Lady Robert Cecil became Vice-Presidents of the newly formed North Sussex branch of the CUWFA. The value of Mary Benson’s identification with the suffrage cause reflected her social status: the news from Horsted Keynes in the Mid Sussex Times of 24th February 1914, was that Mrs Benson and Miss Tait had dined at Lambeth Palace that Monday evening with the King and Queen. Sources: Mid Sussex Times; Conservative Women’s Franchise Association Review. Researched and contributed by independent writer and researcher, Frances Stenlake. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mary Benson Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm POINT(-3928.4648295477778 6625340.688421105) CUWFA https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/9cb658f48f70b625e2b00ab45854f84b.jpg fb71c9e1bc825931149e28075bd1f98d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Lord Robert Cecil, 1919. Source: ©Lafayette/Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Politician Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 47 Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Married Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Gale, Chelwood Gate, Danehill, Sussex Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census MLWS Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Complies Biographical Text Before entering Parliament in 1906 as MP for East Marylebone, Lord Robert Cecil practised as a lawyer, and in 1909, as a member of the Men’s League for Women’s Suffrage (MLWS) unsuccessfully defended Evelina Haverfield when she was arrested with Emmeline Pankhurst and other WSPU members for trying to enter the House of Commons to petition Prime Minister Herbert Asquith. Lord Robert Cecil took part in CWFA meetings in London and the Home Counties, and in 1911 and early 1912 spoke across Sussex - at Horsted Keynes, at the Horsham Suffrage Society’s first AGM, at a Central Sussex Women’s Suffrage Society public meeting in Burgess Hill, and at Forest Row - to promote the Conciliation Bill. This would only give the vote to single women householders, who had been able to vote in local elections since1869, but Lord Robert Cecil argued that the principle of votes for women could later be extended. He was against women MPS: they would be physically unable to endure the ‘exhausting exertions’ in the House of Commons! When the Conciliation Bill was rejected by the House of Commons in March 1912, Lord Robert Cecil sympathised with women’s anger, and expressed vehement objections to harsh prison sentences and forced feeding. He continued, however, to advise the avoidance of militancy and to advocate a ‘moderate and conservative admission of women to the franchise’. In March 1913, the East Grinstead branch of the MLWS was founded, with Lord Robert Cecil and Charles Corbett among its members. In 1916 and 1917, in answer to deputations asking about provision for women’s suffrage in proposed electoral reform legislation, Lord Robert Cecil insisted that he would not assent to any substantial increase in the number of men voters unless this Bill included some measure of enfranchisement for women. Following the enfranchisement in February 1918 of women over 30 who were already local electors or the wives of local electors, Lord Robert Cecil introduced a Bill to make women eligible to stand for Parliament. Passed in November 1918, in time for the General Election the following month, this created the anomaly that women Parliamentary candidates need only be 21. When the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Bill, to enable women to enter such professions as the law, was debated in the House of Commons in 1919, Lord Robert Cecil argued that it should include equal voting rights with men, enfranchising all women over 21, but the Government refused to grant this. In 1922, therefore, Lord Robert Cecil introduced a Bill to extend the franchise to women on the same terms as men, but it would take until 1928 for this to be achieved. Meanwhile, in 1925, as the newly installed Rector of Aberdeen University, Lord Robert Cecil’s first official duty was, appropriately, to open the hall of the new University Women’s Union. He told his cheering audience that he had always been in favour of the enfranchisement of women: women should take their full share of citizenship, as electors for Parliament and as members of the House of Commons. Sources: Hansard; Marylebone Mercury; Westminster Gazette; Mid Sussex Times; Kent and Sussex Courier; Sussex Express; West Sussex County Times; Scotsman. Researched & contributed by independent writer and researcher Frances Stenlake. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Robert Cecil (Lord) Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm POINT(1762.0762195214445 6631570.650800052) MLWS https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/98132d1d38b568be9b07d73a0fd1af37.jpeg bd819316f58931ecdd24abb8e22c2a46 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Lady Eleanor Cecil. Source: Danehill Parish Historical Society Archive. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation None Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 43 Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Married Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Gale, Chelwood Gate, Danehill, Sussex. Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census CUWFA & NUWSS Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Complies Biographical Text Lady Eleanor Lambton, a daughter of the Earl of Durham, married Lord Robert Cecil, a son of the Marquess of Salisbury, in 1899. When the formation of the Conservative and Unionist Women’s Franchise Association (CUWFA) was announced in November 1908, ‘Lady Robert Cecil’ was one of its titled Vice-Presidents. A few weeks later, she was among the ‘influential ladies’ who signed a protest, published widely in the Press, against the WSPU disruption of the Women Liberals Federation meeting in the Albert Hall on 5th December at which Chancellor Lloyd George was to make a statement about women’s suffrage. In London, Eleanor as chair of the committee of the Marylebone and Paddington branch of the CUWFA, introduced a scheme to canvass municipal women voters in the interests of women’s suffrage and induce those who were Conservative to join the CUWFA. On 17th June 1911 Eleanor marched under the CUWFA banner in the ‘Coronation’ suffrage procession from the Embankment to the Albert Hall. In the autumn of 1911, to promote the formation of a Hitchin, Stevenage and District branch of the CUWFA, she addressed a meeting in Hitchin, where her husband would soon be elected MP. She also became a Vice-President of the Letchworth and District Women’s Suffrage Society. Chelwood Gate, Danehill, was the Cecils’ Sussex home from 1899, and in May 1911 and November 1912 Eleanor led Central Sussex Women’s Suffrage Society deputations to the East Grinstead constituency Conservative MP Henry Cautley. She chaired NUWSS branch meetings at Crowborough and Heathfield, was one of the patrons of the Sweated Industries Exhibition staged in Haywards Heath by the Central Sussex Women’s Suffrage Society in February 1912, and opened the corresponding East Grinstead Women’s Suffrage Society exhibition a few months later. The Cecils took part in the inauguration of the North Sussex branch of the CUWFA in Lindfield in April 1913. Eleanor continued to appear on Central Sussex Women’s Suffrage Society platforms however, presiding over the historic visit of NUWSS President Millicent Garrett Fawcett, to Cuckfield’s Queen’s Hall on 20th July 1914, and chairing the East Grinstead Women’s Suffrage Society AGM in January 1915. The welfare of women being of paramount interest, in 1916 Eleanor and other leading suffragists formed the Women’s Local Government Society to promote the appointment of women to committees and sub-committees concerned with the care of mothers and young children. Active in the National Council of Women, she was on the committee that organised its four-day conference at the Brighton Dome in 1924. After the War she resumed her travels to Canada and other ‘British dominions’ to study the living conditions of girls brought out by the Society for the Overseas Settlement of British Women. Eleanor wrote regularly for the monthly CUWFA Review and other periodicals. In an article in the Quarterly Review of January 1913 on the training of the notoriously anti-suffrage Queen Victoria, she concluded, ‘How the Queen herself reconciled her active exercise of authority with her views about feminine duty is a problem before which curiosity must remain unsatisfied.’ Sources: Mid Sussex Times; Kent and Sussex Courier; West Sussex Gazette; Worthing Herald; Worthing Gazette; Conservative Women’s Franchise Association Review; Votes for Women; Common Cause; Women’s Franchise; Marylebone Mercury; The Queen; Illustrated London News. Researched & contributed by independent writer and researcher Frances Stenlake. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Cecil (Lady) Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm POINT(1762.0762195214445 6631570.650800052) CUWFA https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/f92dc5e70363a1db9f7e055fba166d46.jpg 573fdffdf6f2c08c4b735cce6c4bcd7c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Photograph by Douglas Miller 'Suffragists at Clayton'. Source: courtesy of www.sussexpostcards.info. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/ea86fba8b6ccfc86136008dcdd5991a9.jpeg 740f4016602874bb16500c74919fe18b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Photograph by Douglas Miller 'Suffragists at Burgess Hill'. Source: Mid Sussex Times Archive. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/47f2ad5bf4b8fec560f2c293b186255f.jpeg 3d034e5d8689fbf1039be9b77beb0f15 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Photograph Douglas Miller, 'Suffragists on road to Hassocks'. Source: courtesy of Mid Sussex Times archive https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/83d4d86e23bc701787b890c2f5aeae0e.jpg 9bcb2dfaa535fd028b7bd43b44272d14 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Photograph by Douglas Miller, 'Suffragists at Cuckfield'. Source: Courtesy Frances Stenlake. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Photographer Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 37 Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Married Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 9 Boltro Road, Haywards Heath, West Sussex Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census NUWSS Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Complies Biographical Text Photographer Douglas Miller (1874-1961) was a prominent member of the Mid Sussex progressive Congregationalist community, and secretary of the Haywards Heath Liberal and Radical Club. He, his wife Kate, and her sister Lillian Peerless, were among the ‘principal workers’ named in the Mid Sussex Times report of the celebration of the election to Parliament in January 1906 of Liberal suffragist (see) Charles Corbett. The Liberal and Radical Club did not always live up to its name. When, in March 1913, Douglas Miller proposed, in a Club debate conducted exclusively by men, that the Parliamentary franchise be extended to women and men on equal terms, ‘everyone voted against the motion except the mover’. A few months later the NUWSS Great Suffragist Pilgrimage, converging on London from starting points across the country, was Douglas Miller’s opportunity to contribute to the documentation of suffrage activity in this part of Sussex. On Monday 21 July 1913, Kate Miller, a committee member of the Haywards branch of the Cuckfield and Central Sussex Women’s Suffrage Society, joined Brighton and Hove, Worthing, Littlehampton and Seaford suffragists to set off up the Brighton Road, marching with them as far as Burgess Hill. Douglas Miller met them at Clayton where he took the first of a series of four photographs, showing the marchers sporting NUWSS sashes, haversacks and hat decorations, and carrying the drum used to accompany the singing of stirring suffrage songs. Could his wife Kate be the foreground figure on the left? Bringing up the rear is the horse-drawn covered van that carried the Pilgrims’ luggage and campaign literature to be distributed en route. The Pilgrims then paused for lunch and waiting for them were Cuckfield and Central Sussex members led by (see) Edith Bevan. Douglas Miller’s second photograph shows them all gathered in front of the van, its slogan NATIONAL UNION OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE SOCIETIES NON-PARTY NON-MILITANT, now visible. Among the cyclists is (see) Flora de Gaudrion Merrifield, of the Brighton and Hove Women’s Franchise Society. Two policemen are present: Police Superintendent Anscombe of Haywards Heath is taking over as escort from his Brighton colleague. The third photograph shows the meeting held later that afternoon at the Reformers’ Tree in Burgess Hill. From the lorry used as a platform, the crowd was addressed by Alys Russell and Rica Timpany of the NUWSS. Chairman was Thomas Meates at whose home the Pilgrims had just stopped for tea. They had now been joined by the Eastbourne contingent whose banner is propped against the tree. The last photograph was taken in Cuckfield High Street on the Tuesday morning after the Pilgrims’ overnight stop in the town and an 8am service in its Congregational Church. Edith Bevan is in front, immediately behind Superintendent Anscombe, looking back to check that all are ready to continue up the road to London. Specially named by the Mid Sussex Times among ‘the upwards of 70’ present are (see) Marie Corbett, (see) Louisa Martindale and Flora de Gaudrion Merrifield. ‘Many Cuckfield residents accompanied them for a short distance, despite the wet weather.’ Researched & contributed by independent writer and researcher Frances Stenlake. Sources: Mid Sussex Times Brighton Gazette (archive). Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Douglas Miller Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm POINT(-11862.538895752332 6621954.426668265) NUWSS https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/7e8c5ed722f852f366512a30f3ba47f7.jpg d36e41b09163720123bca4e93b8a5a45 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Laura Ridding 1900 (Photo: Ernest H Mills) Source: image ref NTGM012018 courtesy Nottingham City Council (www.picturethepast.org.uk). https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/66f1d6e31101e921f702b7c13af50fce.jpg 63f40256ea18a1401f4f99b70af36242 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Source: The National Archives Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Private means Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 62 Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Widowed Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 20 Bryanston Square, London. Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census NUWSS Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Complies Biographical Text Lady Laura Palmer was born in London in 1849 the daughter of the First Earl of Shelbrooke. In 1876, she married George Ridding, who in 1884 became Bishop of Southwell, Nottingham so the couple moved there. Laura was a keen suffragist though this was something she had to downplay because of her husband’s prominent role in the church. Nonetheless, she was very active in social projects for women and girls in Nottingham, for example, founding a rescue home - Southwell House in Broad Marsh and Hope Lodge - for girls in prostitution. She was also involved in campaigning for better factory conditions and reduced hours helping set up in 1895 the National Union of Women’s Workers, and was involved in the Girls’ Evening Home Movement – clubs to keep young working women off the streets and out of pubs. She was responsible for founding Family Care, an organisation still helping families today. She was also a Poor Law Guardian and rural district Councillor for Southwell Union from 1895 – 1904 at which time her husband died. In 1911, she spent some time with her sister and brother-in-law, the Earl, and Countess Waldergrave in London, where she can be found on the census. She later appears as one of the patrons of a fete held in aid of the East Midlands Federation of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies in 1912, though by this time she had moved back to live at a former residence the Rectory in Wonston, Hampshire. Laura among her other activities, wrote for various periodicals and the Times newspaper on subjects such as women’s education. She wrote three biographies of her husband, sister, and nephew. She also wrote a historical novel ‘By Weeping Cross’ in 1899. During WWI she remained active in the Soldiers and Sailors Family Association, the Women’s War Agricultural Committee, and the YWCA (Young Women’s Christian Association). Laura died in 1939 and is buried alongside her husband in Southwell where she did so much good work. Source: No Surrender: Women's Suffrage in Nottinghamshire - NWHG. Contributed by Nottingham Women's History Group www.nottinghamwomenshistory.org.uk. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Laura Ridding Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm POINT(-17920.768222860555 6713507.751168351) NUWSS https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/661f020a74ed4d9134f1ee377b63541f.JPG 641cfadf0b68ead562cda1442e247e92 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The Hutchinson family are absent likely evading. Source: The National Archives. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Not known Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Not known Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Single Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 5 Cavendish Crescent South, The Park, Nottingham Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census WSPU Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Evades Biographical Text In May 1911, Sarah and her mother gave the Nottingham WSPU a banner to be carried the following month in the Women’s Coronation Procession in London. Earlier in April, Sarah and her parents had been ‘absent’ from home when the government census survey was taken and so only their servants were recorded. Likely they were all evading as part of the wider census boycott encouraged by the WSPU. By 1913, Sarah was secretary of the Nottingham branch of the Friends’ League for Women’s Suffrage. The society aimed to secure the Parliamentary Franchise for women on the same basis as it is or may be granted to men. Source: Jill Liddington, Vanishing for the Vote: Suffrage, Citizenship and the Battle for the Census (Manchester, 2014); Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement in Britain and Ireland: A Regional Survey (London, 2006). Contributed by Nottingham Women's History Group www.nottinghamwomenshistory.org.uk. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sarah Hutchinson Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm POINT(-129424.60407736634 6973624.738112884) WSPU Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Biographical Text Fanny Gladys was born in Bradford. She is sometimes referred to as Fanny, sometimes Gladys, and sometimes as Miss F G Roberts. She was a former solicitor’s clerk who had taken a typing course in Bradford and was the Secretary of Bradford WSPU in 1908 where she chalked caricatures and rhymes on blackboards placed on the street following the Bradford Corporation’s forbidding of pavement chalking to advertise meetings. In the summer of 1909, she was helping Helen Watts in Nottingham and was based at 6 Carlton Street – an address also given by Nelly Crocker in an advert for underwear to be sold at a WSPU Christmas Fair. Fanny was imprisoned in 1909 and 1911 for breaking Post Office windows and her name is on an embroidered suffragette handkerchief held in the Sussex Museum. She cannot be traced on the 1911 census so may have been an evader. She and Nellie Crocker took over at the Nottingham WSPU office in about mid-1911. In 1912, Nelly Crocker and Fanny were both imprisoned for three months in Holloway Prison for breaking windows with hammers at the Post Office on the King’s Road Chelsea, London. They went on hunger strike and were forcibly fed. The two returned to Nottingham in June 1912 and were given a celebratory supper. Fanny then disappears until 1939 when she is recorded as secretary to an Orthopaedic Surgeon, Professor Garthorne Robert Girdlestone, in Oxfordshire. By then Fanny was living in Oxfordshire with Dorothy Vincent Carey. She died in 1975. Source: No Surrender :Women's Suffrage in Nottinghamshire - NWHG. Researched and contributed by Nottingham Women's History Group www.nottinghamwomenshistory.org.uk. Occupation Solicitors clerk Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 23 Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Single Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 6 Carlton Street, Nottingham Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census WSPU Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Evades Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Fanny Roberts Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm POINT(-127473.06208454112 6974395.7622567285) WSPU https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/e83571895d1622ac8f3ce27eeec92d29.jpg 9a8012c7486c34b54a619982da9c0eea Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Teacher Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 37 Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Single Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 21 Chaucer Street, Nottingham Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census WSPU Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Evades Biographical Text May, as she was known, was born in Berkshire and was one of 10 siblings. Her father died when she was aged 26. May was a teacher and worked in a private school. It seems that May moved to Nottingham in about 1901 where she worked for the Education Committee for twenty-nine years. She was involved with the NUWSS but became active in Nottingham's WSPU branch in about 1907 and was elected Honorary secretary in 1908 until a paid organiser Rachel Barrett was appointed later that year. May was present in London on 24th of February,1909, when (see) Helen Kirkpatrick Watts was arrested outside the House of Commons. She wrote to Helen warmly supporting her action, saying she had ‘suffered terribly for the Cause’ while May herself felt a 'desperate coward' as she had escaped the worst of the conflict. In April 1911, May evaded the government census survey as part of a wider suffragette boycott, but her mother and sisters Hannah and Kate and brother George, were home at 21 Chaucer Street - unfortunately no longer there. May went on to teach at Mundella Grammar School for some years becoming Head of the Clarendon School for Girls in 1925. She died at home at 4 Whittingham Road in Mapperley after a short illness. The Nottingham Evening Post reported her death and funeral which was attended by Aldermen, Councillors, and Education Committee members. Source: No Surrender :Women's Suffrage in Nottinghamshire - NWHG. Researched and contributed by Nottingham Women's History Group www.nottinghamwomenshistory.org.uk. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource May (Catherine Mary) Burgis Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm POINT(-128684.3294636941 6975082.596230316) WSPU