8 10 286 https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/92fe00d66d8d06f52f9208424d581986.jpg b0bdc2499fc21a15112c61a0e7d63b37 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 May is absent and likely evading the census. Source: courtesy The National Archives. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation None known Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 35 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 445 Mansfield Road, Redhill, 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 Leonora was married to University College science Professor, Philip Shaw. She joined the Nottingham WSPU branch in 1908 and may have been a founding member. She also acted as some time Treasurer and President and was also a member of the Church League for Women’s Suffrage. She was absent from her home on census night (see image) suggesting that she was evading as part of the WSPU census boycott. Later that year, she was present at the violent struggle that took place during the Black Friday demonstration in Parliament Square in November 1911. Source: Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928 (London, 1999); 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 Leonora Shaw 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(-127885.05551990966 6978908.659918798) WSPU https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/97dec7281d5d9dfca154788ba3f0188d.tif ae4f6e66a7a9e9bce519098055565ec4 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 Helena Dowson, circa 1926. Source: image courtesy of University of Nottingham Manuscripts and Special Collections UMP/4/1 https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/b2dabd987463365dfdb5ae4f9a0420a3.jpg 4c4330c0c6f12923268ded48a9a9b3be 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: courtesy The National Archives https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/2c5688b9c7c2b1c390d79e62f9050f48.jpg 355af8ff140f922718529781a0e6c47c 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 East side of Helena's home 'Felixstowe' before demolition. Source: Photo taken by Philip Potter, son of Helena's housekeeper. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/0ddcfe1db1ee4cfa25e884dabb3b3b85.jpg b28349257992a1d3e202262d917a6b20 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 Citation made to Helena 'Nellie' Dowson. Source: Dame Alix Meynall's book 'Public Servant, Private Woman' (1988 Victor Gollancz). Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Secretary Women's Suffrage Society 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 'Felixstowe' , Clumber Road West, The Park, Nottingham 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 Helena, or Nellie as she preferred to be known, was born at Chestnut House on Chestnut Grove, the only daughter of Alderman Anderson and Jane Brownsword, both active in charity and social works. She married Will Dowson in 1894, first son of Benjamin and Alice Dowson and from 1906 lived in Felixstowe in the Park (previously they had lived at 10 Mapperley Road). The couple also had a bungalow on the Trent. Helena worked with her mother and sisters in law on various issues including women’s suffrage. She took over the lead secretary role from her mother in 1895, affiliating to the National NUWSS and attending the executive meetings in London. She attended and organised demonstrations and meetings, held garden parties and stalls to fundraise, went on marches and events including some organised by the East Midlands Federation of NUWSS as well as some WSPU events. Helena also worked in Nottingham’s suffrage shop in Regent’s Chambers at 54 Long Row - now gone. In 1911, Helena was at home and complied with the April 2nd Census recording her occupation as secretary of the local women’s suffrage society. In 1913, she and Maud - her sister-in-law - joined the Great Suffrage Pilgrimage held by the NUWSS as it passed through Nottingham, on route to London. Nellie picked up Millicent Fawcett and took her to speak at Chesterfield and Southwell; the only region in the shire where Mrs Fawcett spoke. They returned home after the East Midlands events and re-joined the final Hyde Park pilgrimage event on 26th July. Once the vote was won, Helena’s work was commended with an illuminated address by fellow suffragists in Nottingham as follows: “NOTTINGHAM SUFFRAGE LEADER HONOURED. To mark their appreciation of her services to the cause, the object of which has now been secured, friends of the women's suffrage movement in the city and county yesterday [18th July 1918] presented Mrs. W. E. Dowson, of Nottingham, with two large volumes of Japanese painters, with an illuminated address suitably inscribed, and a bronze statuette entitled “Sorrow." The ceremony took place at the residence of Mrs. W. R. Hamilton, Eastdene Alexandra Park, Nottingham, and was witnessed by a considerable gathering” (Nottingham Evening Post, 19 July 1918). During WW1, Helena organised various fundraising and support for women; she was the Honorary Secretary of Queen’s Work for Women; a member of the Anti-Profiteering committee; and set up two Baby Welcomes and a day nursery at the request of the Ministry of Health. She became the first woman JP in 1920 after the Sex Disqualification Removal Act and inaugurated the women’s police court work – being Chair and secretary. Helena also stood unsuccessfully as a Liberal candidate in 1919 and then became the first woman Liberal Councillor in 1920-24 representing the Meadows Ward. She campaigned to improve housing and sanitation and to extend the vote to women over 21 (on an equal footing to men) and for their access to representation on civic bodies. The NUWSS became the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship (NUSEC) in 1919 and in 1924 it became the Nottingham Women’s Service Association later becoming the Townswomen’s Guilds. Helena remained a member. She was also related by marriage to Eleanor Rathbone, who started the first Guilds. She maintained her house in The Park throughout her life, but from 1961 bought Northfield, a house in Newby Bridge, Ulverston now in Cumbria in the Lake District on the edge of Lake Windermere. It is here that she died at the age of 98. Her former home Felixstowe was demolished after her death in the 1960’s. A plaque celebrating her role as the first Liberal woman Councillor was unveiled on 8 March 2020 on the Council House and on 20 July 2020 on the Justice Centre in commemoration of her as one of the first JP’s. In 2021, a blue plaque will be mounted at the Justice Centre to celebrate all of Helena’s incredible achievements. Sources: Miriam Jackson, 'A Tribute to Life: Helena Brownsword Dowson 1866-1964' in No Surrender: Women's Suffrage in Nottinghamshire, NWHG; Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928 (London, 1999). 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 Helena Brownsword Dowson 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(-129799.4168028151 6973897.073154525) NUWSS https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/aaf87348c12031b0ca7ea93622a9ea4d.jpg bb19e9a3f94fd08932a1d0811218482c 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 Helen Watts circa 1911. Source: Col Linley Blathwayt collection (www.bathintime.co.uk). https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/a1ac7ac090069841a1eff48e2f572b7a.jpg e4c464b68c6bcb4a335c2021f63b0d4c 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 Helen in prison uniform: Source & copyright: family album courtesy of The Watts family. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/3ac98ea99fb9788e2494c33a309b3580.jpg c2657ac38a32f8c418a2f29df8081a15 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: Nottinghamshire Archives DD993/4 https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/af84dfe579fab3bed800ca4f98aa2534.jpg 8adf68baada24eb433ee4271dfd1b90a 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 Helen planting a tree at Eagle House, suffragette refuge. Source: Col Linley Blathwayt collection (www.bathintime.co.uk). https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/d1c398e2ddcda872c895f2a4b9e0b4a6.jpg 0dcb8fefb2868358daee6eeb6ab25aeb 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: courtesy The National Archives. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation None given Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 29 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 Chilcompton, Somerset 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 Complies Biographical Text Helen was born in Co Durham the eldest child of Rev Alan Hunter Watts who became the Vicar of Holy Trinity Church, Lenton in 1893. The family lived at Lenton Vicarage now Unity House, 35 Church Street. She had seven younger siblings and was particularly close to her brother Nevile with whom she published 'Poems by a Brother and Sister' in 1906. As a girl Helen contributed to The Girl's Realm magazine an enlightened periodical supporting women's education and entry into the professions although where Helen herself was educated it unclear. Her parents were known supporters of the East Midlands Federation of the NUWSS and some suffrage meetings were held in the church hall. Helen seems to have attended various suffrage meetings before joining the city branch of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) in 1907 after hearing Christabel Pankhurst speak at a volatile meeting in Nottingham mechanics on 2nd December that year. The speakers there were unable to make themselves heard and so a follow-up meeting was held a week later, on the 9th of December and after this Helen joined the WSPU. On the 24th of February 1909, she joined a protest in London and was arrested for willful obstruction. At her appearance at Bow Street Police Court, she refused to be bound over and was sentenced to one month in jail. She wrote to her parents to tell them about her arrest and arranged that her sisters, Alice and Ethel, would receive weekly copies of the WSPU’s 'Votes for Women' newspaper. On release, she was greeted at Nottingham station by many local suffragettes and a celebration supper was held at Morley's cafe on Wheeler Gate. On the 27th of July 1909, the WSPU attempted to disrupt a meeting at the Albert Hall in Nottingham and were ejected; so held a separate meeting in the Market Place where Helen and several others were arrested but released without charge. On the 4th of September along with Mary Rawson and (see) Nelly Crocker - the local WSPU paid organiser- she attended a meeting in Leicester where Winston Churchill was speaking. This time Helen was charged with 'disorderly conduct' and in Leicester jail went on hunger strike for 90 hours. During that time, she was threatened with force feeding, but this did not happen. She did however, smash two windowpanes in her cell to let in the fresh air. Helen was released after 5 days and spoke about her experiences at Morley's cafe on the 17th of September, remarking, ‘Votes for Women’ will not be won by drawing-room chatter’. She was awarded the Holloway prison medal and the Hunger strike medal and was much in demand as a speaker; there are notes of several of her speeches in the Nottingham archives. Helen was arrested again but does not appear to have been involved with militancy after 1910. By March 1911 was at Eagle House, Batheaston where the (see) Blathwayt family welcomed recovering suffragettes. On the 17th of March she planted a juniper tree in the Suffragettes wood there (see image). By the 2nd of April 1911 - census night - she was boarding at the home of her brother Nevile in Chilcompton, Somerset, where she complied with the census. We are not certain where the house was in Chilcompton, so have temporarily placed it at a generic location in the town. If anyone local can discern the name of the house from the census record and identify its precise location, please contact the Mapping Women's Suffrage project. By 1912, Helen was training as a nurse at the Royal National Hospital in Bath and working with the Women’s Freedom League by 1914. Later, she worked as a Civil servant in the Ministry of Pensions. After her retirement she lived in Hassocks in Sussex where she was involved with the Unitarian church. On the 18th of May 1962, she gave an interview in Bath where she had come to see the remains of the Suffragette’s Wood. She said that she had carried a sprig of the juniper tree she planted there in her purse since. In October 1965, she went to Canada to visit her sister Ethel, but ill health forced her to return to Somerset where she died aged 91. She is buried in St Vigor's churchyard at Stratton-on-the-Fosse. In the 1970s, an unaccompanied trunk arrived from Canada at Bristol Docks and remained unclaimed there for several years. Eventually, a dock worker opened it and it was found to contain Helen's letters and suffragette memorabilia. Fortunately, this was shown to a local teacher who made copies and sent these to Nottinghamshire archives - without which we would know a great deal less. The Nottingham Women’s History Group planted a Juniper tree in 2017 and in 2019 installed a commemorative plaque to Helen in the Arboretum. Sources: Helen Kirkpatrick watts Suffragette a Piecemeal Pamphlet by Rowena Edlin White Feb 2016 No Surrender: Women's Suffrage in Nottinghamshire NWHG; Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide (London, 1999). 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 Helen Watts 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(-278791.20437164535 6667434.494858074) WSPU https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/cffe5c55b9ecda8e026438cd673d91b6.jpg 3234c7fd94954ce4acf6b0edeb97d997 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: courtesy The National Archives Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation None given Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 21 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 'Rosemary' 42 Cyprus Road, Nottingham 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 Dulcie was born in Nottingham. Her father was a German lace merchant who became the German vice-consul in Nottingham. There was a German Club on Market Street and a Club Germania on St Ann’s Well Road. Dulcie was involved in NUWSS, but also appears to have set up the local Friends League for Women’s Suffrage. Her husband Wilfred Stewart Rothera became the City Coroner and was also a supporter of women’s enfranchisement setting up a Men’s Association for Promoting Women’s Suffrage in Nottingham. Dulcie was a VAD nurse in WW1 and in 1939 was Commandant of Notts 202 Red Cross. She was also involved with the YMCA and the YWCA (Young Women’s Christian Association). Dulcie was also on the London Executive of the National Council of Women. Her obituary in the press stated that she had been an ardent feminist. Researched and contributed by Nottingham Women's History group www.nottinghamwomenshistory.org.uk. Sources: No Surrender! Women's Suffrage in Nottinghamshire, Rowena Edlin-White (Ed.) Nottingham Women's History Group. 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 Dulcie Alice Rothera 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(-127675.77487724744 6977733.290411168) NUWSS https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/a8410245a69a19612dcf607d8c9e97e6.jpeg cfcef46d6ca52524086ea5db36052307 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 Rose Lamartine Yates, circa 1909. Source: www.bathintime.co.uk https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/11f1b6a559f3cfa101711948d5029cfe.jpg 509d8c180ff13baaae5fc7a0f3a63f30 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 Dorset Hall. Source & copyright: London Borough of Merton. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/a519616d22cf5e28d1bfcce0da3a74dc.jpg 29eefcabff38e466d499c9110bcc22f0 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 Rose with her son Paul. Source: courtesy the Museum of London. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/1d4b6a853807ae96e46ddf49225e9bd4.jpeg 2dac0ef8ab63ee4a51feb41ef89369dc 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 provided by Barbara Gorna. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/0d1cebfc0009eed9672d20d81b4d5ee8.jpg f734d2f92d75ef57333613ab795520bd 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 A suffragette fete held in the garden at Rose's home, Dorset Hall. Source: courtesy The Women's Library, LSE. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/9e8326f82ae863173b37c398e521b2ae.jpg 7a93075a2d01589c15f991dda7351178 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 Rose's 1911 census form from her holiday cottage at Whitstable-cum-Seasalter, Kent, listing all her reasons for evading the census and a note from the census enumerator who found it 'tied to the front door'. Courtesy The National Archives. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/c9eff4c941332305270b215cafd6e4c2.jpg 6ec93b1d437cb39ca0d93439161f73be 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 Rose resists the 1911 census at her holiday cottage in Whitstable-cum-Seasalter, Kent. Source: courtesy The National Archives. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Not stated Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 36 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 'Dorset Hall' 152 Kingston Road, London. 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 Resists Biographical Text Rose (1875 - 1954), who was born in France and raised in Clapham, was educated at the Sorbonne and Royal Holloway. She later studied law to help her husband Tom who was a solicitor. In 1907, Rose became the first woman elected to the Cyclists’ Touring Club (CTC) which had 40,000 members. She also served as the only woman on the Roads Improvement Council. In 1909, Rose joined the Wimbledon branch of the WSPU becoming its militant leader and was jailed for the first time that year, charged with obstruction for protesting outside the House of Commons. Her son, Paul, was 8 months old at the time and she referred to him during her trial. She said that if Paul ever asked her what she had done during the women’s suffrage campaign, she would be embarrassed if she had to reply that she had not attempted to take the matter to the Prime Minister. Despite her husband, Tom, representing her in the trial, Rose was sentenced and served one month’s imprisonment in Holloway. Tom was a member of the Men’s Political Union a wing of the WSPU. Rose’s home, Dorset Hall, became a hub for the Votes for Women movement. She was a great and influential speaker hosting meetings of 20,000 on the local Wimbledon Common. Rose also undertook suffrage work in Kent where she and Tom had a holiday cottage in Whitstable-cum-Seasalter. In 1911, when the government census was taken, Rose and Tom were at their Kent cottage where Rose resisted the census, refusing to give information (see image) but giving a full account of her reasons for protesting the census. In 1912, at her home Dorset Hall, Rose was suspected of hiding Christabel Pankhurst when she was on her way to Paris having fled the Police. Rose refused to allow them to search her house. Emily Wilding Davison (see entry) was a friend and frequently stayed at Rose’s home, including the day before her fatal accident at Epsom Derby in 1913. Rose’s husband Tom represented the Davison family at the inquest, but it was Rose who organised her funeral procession of 100,000 strong. After Emily's death, Rose became ill and took some time to recover, though she remained active with the WSPU until 1915 when the leadership abandoned the suffrage cause to support the War. Rose returned to politics full-time in 1918, when she became a member of the LCC (London County Council) and was instrumental in setting up the Suffragette Fellowship. She never tired of fighting for the poor and under-privileged, leaving her garden at Dorset Hall to be used in perpetuity by the people of Merton. Rose’s home ‘Dorset Hall’ still survives but is under threat. To read more please see our News and Blogs page story ‘Defend Dorset Hall’ by campaigner Barbara Gorna. Sources: Dorset Hall - The John Innes Society Documents held by The Women's Library Newspaper Reports; Jennifer Godfrey Suffragettes of Kent (Pen & Sword); Elizabeth Crawford, The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide (London, 1999). Information contributed by Barbara Gorna (London) & Jennifer Godfrey (Kent). 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 Rose Lamartine Yates 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(-22710.734591537555 6694850.210798857) WSPU https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/dbcd2cf70a2600bf8ab37e8d14198335.jpg 0536a8395e06f9eab9994a50207992de 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 for image: http://www.elisarolle.com/romance/images/EvaGoreBooth.jpg https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/2551193e9bf2c8a7692e0436a1f22367.jpg 4bbb2449d7f894893fc469cbb2b6d5da 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 for image: https://www.makingthefuture.eu/img/asset/bWFpbi91cGxvYWRzL2V2YS1nb3JlLTEuanBn?w=1000&s=ee6842dbf05e0bf73fa681bd4dc7c255 https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/79f887d43dbc1114c98de73795e3879b.jpg 79d5020703426eb48ed7fac120aae2e0 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 1911 census return for 4 Park Crescent where visitor Elizabeth Parker signs for 'Esther Roper, the occupier'. Source: courtesy The National Archives. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/5be287333c09ccad625aec03f621d013.png 135a891f00cf2a4a3e857f1b9edd15f6 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 4 Park Crescent is now part of the Victoria Park Hotel. Source: Google 2021. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 41 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 Cringle Brook, 4 Park Crescent, Victoria Park, Manchester 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 Evades Biographical Text Born into a wealthy Irish family on 22 May 1870, Eva Gore Booth had an early awakening to her social conscience, witnessing the Irish famine of 1879. She was deeply moved by the experience of tenants coming to her home and begging for help, and she saw her mother’s efforts to help by setting up a school for women to learn needlework, to supplement their incomes and achieve financial independence. After extensive travel with her father during the 1890’s, Eva spent time in Italy – in part to recuperate from the respiratory illness she was beginning to endure. There she began writing poetry and in 1896, met the love of her life, Esther Roper. Eva’s poetry focused in Irish folklore, but also on love and sexuality, and she was one of the only women then writing about love between women. After meeting Esther, Eva moved to live with her in Manchester where she was an active, vociferous but non-violent campaigner for women’s labour rights from 1899 to 1913. Eva believed that women’s suffrage was crucial to gaining fair and equal treatment in the workplace, and in 1904, resigned from the Manchester & Salford Women’s Trade Union Council when they decided not to include the vote among their political demands for women. Eva and Sarah Dickinson set up the Manchester & Salford Women’s Trade Union and Labour Council to continue the campaign for the vote, putting forward parliamentary candidates in the 1906 and 1909 general elections. From 1906 onwards, Eva continued to campaign for women’s rights at work, and the vote. She wrote papers, letters and articles and spoke frequently at meetings and conferences, including Labour Party Conferences and the Fabian Society. In November 1911, she was a member of the delegation representing working women of the north of England who called upon Lloyd George not to drop the Conciliation Bill. Determined to learn everything she could about the conditions of women, Eva spent a brief period in 1911 working as a ‘pit brow lass’ (the women who moved the coal above ground). In Manchester, Eva and Esther lived together first in a small house in Heald Place, in Rusholme. In 1906, they moved to the leafier Victoria Park area – into a house called Cringle Brook (4 Park Crescent). This house is now part of The Victoria Park hotel. The 1901 census records the Heald Place as ‘jointly occupied’ and notes both women to be ‘secretaries’ of campaigning organisations. In 1911, both women appear to have evaded the census – the record for 4 Park Crescent is signed by Elizabeth Parker (visitor) ‘for Esther Roper, the occupier’ and there is no other record of Eva or Esther. The 1911 census boycott offered an opportunity for peaceful campaigners as well as 'suffragettes' to engage in an act of passive resistance although uptake among NUWSS members seems to have been scarce. Eva and Esther may have stayed at the 'mass evasion' sleepover going on at Denison House, just around the corner from their home in Park Crescent, and organized by (see) WSPU member Jessie Stephenson. In 1913, Eva and Esther moved from Manchester to Hampstead in London, to provide a healthier atmosphere for Eva, who continued to suffer from respiratory problems. During the war, both women became involved in welfare work and in the peace campaign. Eva died from intestinal cancer in 1926, and is buried in Hampstead with Esther. Eva's sister Constance, later became Countess Markievicz, Irish nationalist, suffragist, and the first woman elected to the British House of Commons. Sources: Sonia Tiernan, Eva Gore-Booth: An Image of Such Politics (Manchester, 2012); Emma Baldwin, Biography of Eva Gore Booth (Poemanalysis.com); Slaters' Manchester , Salford & Suburban Directory' 1909 p 955 and 1911 (Pt1) p 538 (University of Leicester, Special Collections online). Contributed by Evelyn Cook, Independent Researcher. 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 Eva Gore-Booth 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(-247385.1930359648 7067337.600600301) NUWSS https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/b72b087f0a63f91c02fccbad29127d5f.jpg 770588066a37d840ced2be5a56c908f8 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 Dr. Mary Charlotte Murdoch. Source: https://www.carnegiehull.co.uk/hull-firsts/dr-mary-murdoch.php https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/fb8e91a80f5004039b6534e78a014f64.jpg c29bf779abad54d8f409f3b22a753815 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 Dr. Mary Charlotte Murdoch. Source: Hull History Centre. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/5f080cd92a8c6c2aee0ec448abf5dd6c.jpg 786ed2bb362f92f23e068f4187594d58 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's 1911 census form. Source: courtesy The National Archives. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/99aa6997e1b294599f671abdaa464e90.jpg 07260423bd18d7d4a4f708e6439fb4d6 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 Recent photograph of Mary Murdoch's address at 102 Beverly Road, Hull, now offices. Source: https://www.hull-humber-chamber.co.uk https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/8f88e1f51ddeaccf8498a5dc985b12c1.jpg a9c9590e03ba59bec05eb2b554574796 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 Commemorative plaque dedicated to Dr Mary Murdoch, located on her former home in Beverley Road. Source: photograph by Yvonne Inall for the Remember Me project, Hull, at https://remembermeproject.wordpress.com/2017/04/05/dr-mary-murdoch-1864-1916-a-woman-doctor-of-hull/ Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Physician & Surgeon Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 46 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 102 Beverley Road, Hull, Yorkshire 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 Complies Biographical Text Mary Charlotte Murdoch was born in Elgin in 1864, daughter of Jane and solicitor William Murdoch and was the youngest of six children. She started her education in Elgin before attending Manor Mount Girls' Collegiate School at Forest Hill in south London, before moving to Lausanne in Switzerland. She returned to Elgin in 1883 and, after her mother's death, she attended the London School of Medicine for Women in 1888. It was during her studies in London, that she started attending meetings about the women’s suffrage cause. Mary finished her qualifications in Scotland in 1892 and completed a midwifery course at the Maternity Hospital in Brighton. Her first professional experiences were in London as clinical assistant under Helen Webb in the New Hospital for Women and under Helen Mackenzie's outpatient department at Brompton Hospital. In 1893, Mary was appointed house-surgeon at the Victoria Hospital for Children in Hull; in 1895 she became assistant medical officer at the Tottenham Fever Hospital, where she gained experience with infectious diseases; and in 1896 she returned to Hull and became the first woman to practice medicine there. Eventually, Mary set up a private practice in Hull, bringing suffragist Louisa Martindale into the partnership in 1900, and she was also appointed honorary assistant physician to the Victoria Hospital for Children becoming in 1910 , honorary senior physician. She had been a member of the British Medical Association since 1894; took an active role in the Association of Registered Medical Women; and as a lecturer at the London School of Medicine for Women. Mary Murdoch was well-known and respected as a good diagnostician, and researcher of pericarditis as well as vaccine treatments. In addition, Mary had not forgotten those early suffrage meetings and became a very active public speaker for the cause of women’s suffrage; fearless despite the risk to her professional reputation. In 1904, she founded and chaired the Hull Women’s Suffrage Society, affiliated to the NUWSS. However, after the NUWSS publicly rejected militant tactics in 1909, Mary resigned and joined the WSPU instead, although she remained critical of its autocratic structure and the progression of more violent militancy. Despite her departure from the NUWSS, Mary continued as one of its leader, Millicent Fawcett’s, close friends. In 1911, she even represented her at the meeting of the International Council of Women (ICW) held in Stockholm and in 1913 at the meeting of the standing committee of the ICW at the Hague. She complied with the 1911 census, despite belonging to the WSPU who encouraged its boycott. It is not clear what informed her decision, but perhaps as a clinician, she recognised the potential value of gathering census population statistics on issues relating to health and social conditions such as infant mortality rates, to argue for reform. Sadly, Mary Murdoch died at home in 1916, following a short illness after attending an emergency call in difficult, snowy conditions.' Sources: K. Cockin (2005) entry - Murdoch, Mary Charlotte (1864–1916), physician and suffragist, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography; Elizabeth Crawford (1999) The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866-1928 (London: Routledge); Jill Liddington (2014) Vanishing for the Vote: Suffrage, Citizenship and the Battle for the Census, (Manchester: Manchester Uni Press). Contributed by Oihane Etayo (Warwick University). 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 Murdoch 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(-38727.828202607336 7123540.016673634) WSPU https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/30f42e740c175392c712c8be399949f2.jpg 806f4e8bb8faf4d3f09bbc57a029ee11 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 Manchester suffragettes in their 'census lodge' Denison House on census night. Source: courtesy of Lt Col. Sydney Brock's Collection (private). https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/add4d77905631b1a1cb44f86901c689e.jpg 01183003acfab680198e1a3ee01b5f0f 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 Manchester census 'sleepover' at Denison House in 1911. Source: courtesy Lt Col. Sydney Brock Collection (private). https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/dd1f1bfdb4c726267cdf4d2b9d5a2a36.jpg ad10f0688ddbe56ca519939ca7b5192d 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: courtesy The National Archives https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/86ca1d447900274667502f09dddac81e.jpg 07ce178f51078b0d6ebd627eeb2daff0 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 Denison House survives and is currently used as a Chinese consulate building. Source: http://manchester.china-consulate.org/eng/zlsg/zlgxx/t142849.htm Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Organizing Secretary WSPU Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 38 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 Denison House, 71 Denison Road, Manchester 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 Resists Biographical Text Jessie (Sara) Stephenson (1873-1966) was born in Louth, Lincolnshire. Her father was a farmer and she grew up in a family with very strict views on women’s roles linked to the private, domestic sphere. However, despite her parents’ initial reluctance, Jessie moved abroad and lived in Germany and France with their consent, while working as an English teacher. In 1907, she started campaigning for the votes for women campaign with the WSPU. On 21 June 1908, she was the chief Marshall of the Paddington section of the WSPU rally in Hyde Park, speaking from platform no. 20. A few days later she was chosen to take part in a WSPU deputation to the House of Commons. She managed to enter the House of Commons, and almost succeeded in entering the Central Hall according to her own accounts. In November 1910, she was arrested after breaking a window to protest about police brutality against suffrage activists in Parliament Square during "Black Friday". She was sentenced to one month's imprisonment in Holloway, losing her job as a secretary to a barrister and her family’s support. In 1911 she went to Manchester to work as a WSPU organizer. In April, she organised a census night protest for women who wanted to evade the census without legal consequences. She rented Denison House (see images) - her census lodge - and publicly invited ‘every woman who could help in this great protest’, announcing lodging and entertainment there on 2nd April from 4pm through to 3rd April at 4pm in the WSPU newspaper Votes for Women. On census night, 208 people participated in the protest there (see images) including figures such as Flora Drummond and Mabel Capper. In her autobiographical account, Jessie wrote that she filled in the census schedule herself writing: “this house is crowded with women who refuse to fill in the Census until women are recognised as persons and have the vote”. However, the document available from The National Archives (see image) is not the form she described. Instead, it is filled in and signed by the registrar. Only Jessie’s name is recorded as an ‘Organizing Secretary WSPU’, 'about 40 years old' and single, along with 155 other women and 52 men present. The registrar noted ‘suffragists here to avoid census’. Sources: Jill Liddington (2014) Vanishing for the Vote: Suffrage, Citizenship and the Battle for the Census (Manchester: Manchester Uni Press); Elizabeth Crawford (1999) The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866-1928 (London: Routledge). Contributed by Oihane Etayo (Warwick University). 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 Jessie (Sara) Stephenson 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(-247075.27957363945 7067563.804344548) WSPU https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/f0d1e658fe138d7dddbf97ca925b4e4c.jpg cb02144ddb7a48f65abc4b0ec0577a8f 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 Blathwayt taken by Col. Linley Blathwayt, 1911. Source: www.bathintime.co.uk https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/63f1cd3d0c6f5ec928f5d0164625244d.jpg 4afab8cd534fc85f64dfe2499b8b973b 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 Blathwayt, Annie Kenney and Emmeline Pankhurst, taken by Col, Linley Blathwayt 1910, in the background is the Suffragettes Rest. Source: www.bathintime.co.uk https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/bde5befa9b0a6a0a2e19db170f7dd18a.jpg 8d4cc26591203ce91dad043137e4c64a 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 Emily Blathwayt taken by Col. Linley Blathwayt, 1909. Source: www.bathintime.co.uk https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/4a3898382e804ecb7e16070c05a5470f.png 0bed506be42b43ae3b33424e9d810806 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 Blathwayt’s umbrella displayed at the Fashion Museum, Bath. Source: authors own photograph (2018). Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation None known Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 32 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 Eagle House, Batheaston, Bath 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 Mary Blathwayt was a suffragette from the city of Bath. Born in 1879, she was the first of two children of Col. Linley Blathwayt and Emily Blathwayt. Cynthia Hammond describes the family as: ‘decorous and comfortably well off, the Blathwayt’s were neither economically marginal nor revolutionary in their dress, comportment or social values’. Mary’s father purchased Eagle House on the outskirts of Bath in 1882 after retiring from service in India. The house was built by John Wood the elder, famous architect of Georgian Bath and it came with four acres of land. This land would later become the scene of many suffragette activities. Mary and her parents all were diarists, and it is from Mary and her mother's writings in particular that their suffrage activities can be revealed. Mary's diaries show her to be a shrewd woman with a tendency to write in a precise and detailed way. She recorded timings to the minute, for example, train journeys were a particular interest and mentioned frequently. She spent a lot of time cycling, swimming and even shooting. Her bicycle in particular enabled Mary to travel frequently into Bath and partake in many suffrage activities. Mary taught violin lessons at Eagle House and outside of her home she was involved in many societies. By 1906, Mary had joined the WSPU and then the NUWSS in 1907. Perhaps the most well-known suffrage activity that occurred in Bath was in fact, the collaborative work of the Blathwayt family in their own garden. In April 1909, Emily Blathwayt wrote in her diary that the ‘idea of a field of trees grows.’ No one knows exactly where the idea came from, but it was perhaps influenced by frequent visitor Annie Kenney; the field of trees was known as ‘Annie’s Arboretum’. Around sixty women visited Eagle House, including the Pankhursts, and planted a tree in their name in response to the political torture faced in prisons from forcible feeding. Eagle House was a place of sanctuary and had a special summerhouse called ‘Suffragettes Rest’ where women could practice speeches, write letters and recover. Mary developed a particularly close friendship with Annie Kenney and assisted her with the West of England campaigning and moved to Bristol with her for a short while. By 1911, Mary had moved back home as the campaigning had taken a strain on her health. A few days before the census, the Bath Chronicle reported that the ‘Suffragettes of this City and district, who are bent on evading the Census return are making elaborate plans for next Sunday night’. The Bath WSPU organiser Mrs Mansel rented 12 Lansdown Crescent for women to hide and spend the night in on the 2nd of April 1911 to evade the census. Mary described the evening: ‘I got there before 10 o’ clock. A little crowd of people were standing in the doorway...I took a nightdress etc. with me...we had a charming room to hold our meeting.’ After Emily Blathwayt resigned on the 8th of September 1909, Mary resigned from the WSPU in June 1913. She was still active but strictly non-militant. Militancy only got worse in Bath after this. On the 15th of May 1917 a Women’s Suffrage Bill was introduced and passed on the 6th of February 1918. Women obtained full voting rights in July 1928. Mary made no comment in her diary. Contributed by Ellis Naylor (BA, MA) Bath Spa University. Sources used: Gloucestershire Archives, D2659, Mary Blathwayt, Diary Gloucestershire Archives, D2659, Emily Blathwayt, Diary Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette (1906-1913) Crawford, Elizabeth, The Women’s Suffrage Movement: Reference Guide 1866-1928, (Routledge, 2003); Hammond, Cynthia, Architects, Angels, Activists and the City of Bath, 1765- 1965: Engaging with Women’s Spatial Interventions in Buildings and Landscape, (Routledge, 2016); Hammond, Cynthia and Brown, Dan, Suffragettes in Bath, Activism in an Edwardian Arboretum, (Bath in Time, 2011); Hammond, Cynthia ‘Suffragette City: Spacial Knowledge and Suffrage Work in Bath, 1909-14’, in Bath History Volume XIII, ed. By Graham Davis, (Bath Spa University, 2013); Hannam, June, ‘“Suffragettes are Splendid for Any Work”: The Blathwayt Diaries as A Source for Suffrage History’ in A Suffrage Reader, Charting directions in British suffrage history, ed. By Claire Eustance, Joan Ryan, Laura Ugolini (Leicester University Press, 2000); June Hannam, ‘Suffragette Photographs’, Regional Historian, 8, (2002); Wilmott Dobbie, B. M. , A Nest of Suffragettes in Somerset, (The Batheaston Society, 1979). 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 Blathwayt 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(-258172.8309287669 6694667.086643771) WSPU https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/ab533709f577197e31f88227de43e679.jpg ef4d20d7173dfda3dd908467edc6c230 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 Wightwick Manor. Copyright National Trust. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/90346b89d08cae6202b74450d52704fa.jpg 7085f3bcaadcfc04ae5dc732b7869ab4 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 Geoffrey Mander in uniform. Courtesy of Wightwick Manor Collections. Copyright National Trust. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/d2b0632ffc5601848bb96133af42be5c.jpg 65a921a72456a1ba7e9823e6343f59e8 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 Courtesy of Wightwick Manor Collections. Copyright National Trust. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/f9514edecbf720dbe97dc4aee36ef57d.jpg 5976580ccb252bc9906835ab4ffa0b1d 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 Courtesy of Wightwick Manor Collections. Copyright National Trust. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/d157fd3f3e085ebc177d2f37891b89d5.jpg 6210dc48320cf4b522c41261443bcb9c 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 Geoffrey, Florence & children in the Great Parlour at Wightwick Manor. Courtesy of Wightwick Manor Collections. Copyright National Trust. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/829b77a4860b82cf760452285d07710f.jpg 5d8593c06fa1e13feed4b53e9c8947c6 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 Geoffrey Mander (far left) electioneering. Courtesy of Wightwick Manor Collections. Copyright National Trust. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/c41cca00dab16b6d1bd89e08e3ee9a4f.jpg dee937e105fd9a622b05bc45f109623d 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 Courtesy of Wightwick Manor Collections. Copyright National Trust. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Paint & Varnish Manufacturer Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 29 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 Wightwick Manor, Wolverhampton 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 Absent abroad Biographical Text Geoffrey Mander (1882-1962) a Wolverhampton paint and varnish manufacturer and later liberal MP, inherited Wightwick Manor in 1900 and was an outspoken supporter of the Suffragist Movement and an advocate of women’s equality. Geoffrey does not appear on the 1911 census, and was likely abroad with Mander Brothers company commitments. In 1912, Geoffrey spoke at a local Women’s Liberal Association meeting (records show that he had been attending and addressing these meetings since at least 1907) and argued that every woman over the age of 21 should be able to vote and should be allowed to have seats in Parliament and sit on the Wolverhampton Town Council. However, he did argue that while he hoped women would get the vote in the next two years, it was too big a demand to put forward at the present time. Geoffrey reiterated his commitment to women’s right to vote in the Manders Monthly Messages pamphlets, which we believe were distributed to the work force and perhaps the local community. A year later in 1913, Geoffrey formally joined the Wolverhampton Women’s Suffrage Society. He presided over a meeting of the local society at Wightwick, which his wife (see) Florence hosted the speaker, Alicia Bewicke, on ‘Women of the East and West’. Geoffrey, with his wife Florence, also supported the 1913 NUWSS pilgrimage, led by Millicent Fawcett. When the travellers stopped in Wolverhampton a great meeting was held in the marketplace which was supported by Geoffrey and Florence. Geoffrey later served in the House of Commons, 1929-1945, as a radical Liberal MP. He quickly built a reputation for his skilful use of ‘parliamentary questions’. He tirelessly argued for women’s rights on many issues, including: the need for more women magistrates and policewomen; for restrictions of hours laundry workers could work; for increased maternity benefit and more maternity accommodation; and asked why some London universities refused to allow women to train as doctors. Geoffrey also challenged the Home Secretary on the introduction of legislation with the object of ‘removing the sex disqualification which prevents women taking their seats in the House of Lords and differentiates them from men in respect of inheritance, contract and restraint on anticipation, and other matters, with a view to facilitating a League of Nations convention on equal rights for men and women?’ The Home Secretary declined. In 1931 he was also one of the MPs to put forward a Domestic Service Bill, to establish a commission and charter to ensure female domestic workers were not exploited, had proper training, working conditions, pay, holidays and accommodation. Researched and contributed by Hannah Squire (Assistant Curator, National Public Programmes, National Trust). 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 Geoffrey Mander 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(-244370.99518417488 6906078.464678018) NUWSS