9 10 286 https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/ef0fc2f73f18637e6309db814bf4b8e6.jpg 89f65805cb26d426fc0c10184c79c418 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 Edward and his wife Emmeline evaded but were recorded on the census by surname only at their nearby friend Charlotte Bardsley's Guesthouse, 'Snowden'. Source: The National Archives. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Stockbroker Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 57 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 'Glenroy' now Sydenham Villas Road, Cheltenham. 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 Edward Wilkins was a stockbroker and had two sons with his wife (see) Emmeline Wilkins a WFL member. Edward supported the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) but seems to have taken part in the suffrage boycott of the census in 1911 with his wife. The two, who were probably residing at 'Glenroy' in what is now Sydenham Villas Road in 1911, evaded at a local Food Reform Guesthouse run by a WFL member (see) Charlotte Bardsley at 'Snowden', Sydenham Villas - now 56 London Road, Cheltenham. Researcher/contributor: Sue Jones author of 'Votes for Women: Cheltenham and the Cotswolds' (The History Press, 2018). 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 Edward Weedon Wilkins 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(-229888.74131610183 6781351.180098) NUWSS https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/89d886e41d80c71cf3459149684ad3ce.jpg 2ec5b29f3f7269e8d4ad09a9850aef81 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 53 Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Glengariff, Kew Road, Kew Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Married Occupation Analytical chemist 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 Evades Biographical Text The whole Clayton family was deeply involved in the suffrage movement. Edwy Clayton’s wife, Clara, and daughter, Hilda, were very active members of the WSPU and the Church League for Women’s suffrage. In 1913 Clayton was suspected of providing materials to make explosives used in suffragette attacks on property. He was sentenced to 21 months in prison, went on hunger strike, and was eventually released under the Cat and Mouse Act. As a result of the prosecution his business was, apparently, ruined. Clayton belonged to the Men's League for Women's Suffrage and also the Men's Politcal Union (MPU). The Men's League was founded in 1907, 'with the object of bringing to bear upon the movement the electoral power of men... to obtain for women the vote on the same terms as which it is now, or may be in the future, be granted to men'. The MPU founded in 1910 was a militant society - the male equivalent of the WSPU. For more information see the entry for Edwy Clayton in Elizabeth Crawford: The Women’s Suffrage Movement: a reference guide, 1866-1928 (London: Routledge, 2001). 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 Edwy Clayton Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant POINT(-33209.164447299 6704107.118465527) MLWS https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/675eb8c51403609a79b9b64047badc28.jpg ed6cce2a05435872c73f68c7a23039c3 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 Mapdata ©2017Google streetview https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/79e8fd4f9bba7dae0a9de768e94e87e9.jpg e20155314f4567bc07e155877000b516 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 25 Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 25 West Park Road, Kew TW9 4DB Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Single Occupation Not known 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 Eileen Casey was born in Australia, the daughter of a doctor, and moved to England as a child. All the members of the Casey family became involved in the suffrage movement. Eileen had joined the WSPU by 1911 and on census night only Dr Casey was at home – his wife and daughters evaded. In March 1912 Eileen was imprisoned after taking part in a WSPU-organised window-smashing campaign in Oxford Street. She went on hunger strike and was forcibly fed. She was arrested again on several occasions, charged with setting fire to pillar boxes and imprisoned. After being released under the Cat and Mouse Act in late 1913 she evaded the police for eight months until she was arrested on a charge of possessing explosives in Nottingham in June 1914 at a time when a visit was due to be made to the city by the King and Queen. On 28 July she was sentenced to 15 months’ imprisonment but was released a few days later under the general amnesty granted to suffragette prisoners on the outbreak of the First World War. Eileen’s mother and sister were also arrested as a result of their suffrage activities, her mother spending some time in prison. Dr Casey fully supported their commitment to the suffrage campaign and in June 1913 allowed the family home to be used by Kitty Marion and Clara Giveen immediately after they had set fire to the stadium at Hurst Park. For more information see the entry for Eileen Casey in Elizabeth Crawford: The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A reference guide,1866-1928 (London: Routledge, 2001). 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 Eileen Casey Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant POINT(-31524.566593358886 6706017.0372021925) WSPU 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/d9cb23fa5b49ca02626397748333d7d8.jpg f752b0e206cc0b279e7a7e88b0bf66b7 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 Cowes Castle, Viscountess Gort's home. The castle was demolished in 1963. Source: County Press 7 December 2019 © 2001-2025. The Isle of Wight County Press https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/b97e0a9ab940551a65a2796d56a3d88c.jpg d2033c33fa431830e55a3a3cf27405e7 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 Ashbourne Telegraph 19 March 1909 https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/885f51f99a5bba468ba1b33dbefedbdf.jpg aeaaeabb87ec50e791718549da2f7c32 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 Vote, 26 Feb 1910 https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/1551cb026dc2c126c68cbec7fd444a54.jpg e2fe6e87dc3907e0017f4018fbddde21 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 London Evening Standard 8 July 1914 https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/3ebb117d7116f78b3c0fd5d2607d1866.jpg b1df8c4576e181dd9607d26ec3251e88 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 death of Viscountess Gort in 1933 at East Cowes Castle. Western Morning News 1 March 1933 https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/54bd404cbee7e5e769e32811a4f50c30.jpg e24527a4fef95cb03fba7ed9787f4b02 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 Viscountess Gort occupied/owned several homes moving around the country including Durham and London where she was staying and recorded on the 1911 census. However, her home and much of her social and political life was located on the Isle of Wight where she also died and is found on the project map. Census courtesy The National Archives. 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 54 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 East Cowes Castle, East Cowes PO32 6QG Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census CUWFA Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Complies Biographical Text Viscountess Eleanor Gort was born Eleanor Surtees in 1857. Her father was Richard Smith Surtees, who was a well-known novelist and editor. He owned Hamsterley Hall in Durham, which Eleanor inherited after her father's death in 1864. There is little information on Eleanor’s upbringing and young adult life. She married John Gage Prendergast Vereker, the 5th Viscount of Gort, in January 1885. Eleanor and John would be gifted the now demolished East Cowes Castle on the Isle of Wight as a Christmas gift in 1895 from John’s father. Eleanor and John had two sons together before John died in 1902. Eleanor would go on to marry Colonel Starling Meux Benson in June 1908, who was also a widower. In their marriage announcement, the pair were described as devout to the Church of England, and both believed in women’s suffrage. Eleanor was a member of the Conservative and Unionist Women’s Franchise Association, which was founded to support the suffrage movement. Eleanor was also involved in the Blue Cross, lending her drawing room for a sale of China, jewellery and enamel to raise money. She also opened a Blue Cross shelter in Chelsea in 1909. Eleanor also opened her home for suffrage meetings in all her homes across the country in Durham, London and on the Isle of Wight. In 1909, she opened her home in Grosvenor Gardens in London to an at-home which was well attended by members of the conservative franchise association. This included the president, Lady Knightley of Fawsley and Lady Edward-spencer Churchill, aunt of future prime minister Winston Churchill. She complied with the 1911 census and was recorded as staying at her London home with her second husband and 8 servants. She held an at-home at Hamsterley Hall for the Shotley Bridge and Consett branch of the NUWSS in 1912. In 1913, Eleanor presided over a Church League for Women's Suffrage meeting at Cowes. It was attended by many local Island residents. Eleanor attended the 1914 meeting for delegates of the International Women’s Suffrage Alliance, in which Great Britain was represented by Mrs Stanton Coit, who travelled to the Isle of Wight many times to help the suffragist movement. Eleanor died in March 1933 at East Cowes Castle, just a month after her husband. Eleanor complied with the 1911 census while staying at her house in London. Families who lived on the Island often had houses in London to be close to the heart of British society and would regularly travel between them, depending on the season and occasion. For Eleanor, this also includes her home in Durham. Eleanor has been plotted at her house, East Cowes Castle, to represent her vital role in the suffrage movement on the Isle of Wight. While she participated in the movement in London and Durham, her work was most prevalent on the Isle of Wight, and thus she is plotted on the Island to highlight this. East Cowes Castle was demolished in 1963 but the map location is placed on the site where it was. Sources: Mosley, Charles, Burke’s Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage: Clan Chiefs, Scottish Feudal Barons (Stokesley, Burke’s Peerage & Gentry, 2003). Contributed by Becca Aspden, URSS student researcher, History Dept., 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 Eleanor Gort (Viscountess) 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(-142549.57626328364 6578616.386816286) https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/5e8192b63cd65e20af76a21a498147be.png ded5e876229aa14285590934dceab3bb 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: Google Maps, 2021. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/a72547885529afcd8b440788dfa445ca.jpg e6b380c1f1e466e79fbaa1c4f625d54c 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 51 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 12 Nicoll Road, Willesden 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 Eleanor Penn Gaskell (c.1860-1937) was honorary secretary of the Willesden branch of the London Society for Women's Suffrage affiliated with the law-abiding National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS). However, from 1908, she began subscribing to the Women’s Social and Political union (WSPU) and was arrested in 1908 for causing a disruption in Piccadilly Circus when distributing leaflets. In January 1910, a shop and office for the Northwest London branch of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) was opened at 215 High Road Kilburn and managed by Eleanor. In 1911, when the government ordered all households to comply with the census, like numerous supporters of votes for women belonging to the WSPU she decided as an act of civil disobedience not to participate. Eleanor and her husband provided a 'hide out' at their home in 12 Nicoll Road, Willesden, for suffrage supporters who wished to illegally avoid completing the government census survey by staying away from their own homes on census night when officials came to collect. How many stayed there is unclear. George Gaskell, Eleanor's husband, was the only named person on the census for their address in Willesden, and he wrote on the census form (see image): “A number of women suffragists spent the night of 2nd April (census night) in my house. As members of a disenfranchised sex, they object to giving any particulars concerning themselves for the purpose of enumeration under a census act in the framing of which their sex has had no voice. They base their objection upon the principle that government should rest upon the consent of the governed, and as I myself uphold this democratic principle I do not feel justified in filling up any particulars concerning them against their will.” The Penn-Gaskell house was also where (see) Emily Wilding Davison was nursed back to health in June 1912 after hunger striking, being forcibly fed, and injuring herself in Holloway. Eleanor continued campaigning with the WSPU until 1915 when it dropped campaigning for the vote for ‘other purposes outside the scope of the Union’ and failed to publish its accounts. Eleanor then became a member of the breakaway Suffragettes of the WSPU. Sources: Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928 (London: Routledge, 1999); www.suffrageresources.org.uk/database/1891/mrs-eleanor-charlotte-penn-gaskell; Dick Weindling at www.kilburnandwillesdenhistory.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-suffragettes-in-kilburn.html. Contributed by Alison Harman, Local history researcher and volunteer at Brent Museum and Archives. 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 Penn Gaskell 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(-27880.523062748332 6716824.414071898) WSPU https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/11f6c7fcb88e9ea2df45732d29d3324a.jpg 906dad3f57f831104ba7de294a0cdac6 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 Eleanor Rathbone in 1910. Source: Special Collections & Archives at the University of Liverpool Library (RPXIV.3.96) https://manuscriptsandmore.liverpool.ac.uk/?p=4131. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/96ff22d8f639abad6a71c62d05c0f22c.jpg f97dafb8aa9e6deb6358277231b7a2c7 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 Eleanor complies with the census in 1911. Source: courtesy of The National Archives. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/587276bdc5556bce86b02d16554ef6b5.jpg 1372bf79d89568cf8360cb8afb432f11 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 Eleanor's home 'Greenbank House' now used as a teaching facilities building by the University of Liverpool. Source: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/facilities-residential-and-commercial-services/ulcco-sp/completed-works/greenbankhouse/? https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/619114b04c53996b0348fa7619e292ae.jpg 7e13f922f3a9d08ef2099530f778fb39 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 Eleanor's Granby ward election flyer, 1910. Source: https://asenseofplace.com/2013/09/08/eleanor-rathbone-of-liverpool/ https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/252722df015c74c42c79fc5cef066960.jpg 3e4efd095d6c08673704e13af897980f 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 Eleanor Rathbone speaking in 1922. Source: The Women's Library, LSE. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/846edb2b0c13432c5b6e0314308b55b1.jpg bf0ea71b54f97ae9c10b824f4e87594f 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 Eleanor Rathbone speaking at National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship meeting at Aubrey House, 1925. Mrs Millicent Fawcett is on her right. Source: The Women's Library, LSE. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/7690bea4d39f238ff6656fb36686ee08.jpg e4276c9b3874e4aab304609a7e5dde72 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 Blue plaque at Greenbank. Source: https://openplaques.org/plaques/1406 Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Member of City Council & political organising 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 Greenbank House, Greenbank Lane, Liverpool. 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 Eleanor Florence Rathbone (1872-1946) was a committed suffragist, a dedicated feminist, and a pioneering social reformer. She dedicated her career to enhancing women’s rights. In addition to being the Honorary Secretary of the Liverpool branch of the NUWSS she was a member of the NUWSS Executive Committee. Eleanor did not support any extreme or illegal forms of protest. She routinely denounced and distanced herself from any extreme or violent acts carried out by the WSPU. She was born to William Rathbone VI and his second wife Emily Acheson Lyle. The Rathbones were a prominent Liverpool family, residing in Greenbank House in south Liverpool. The Rathbone family motto was ‘What ought to be done, can be done’, so from an early age a strong sense of civic duty and responsibility was instilled into Eleanor. She was expected to use her wealth, privilege, and influence to effect real social change. Eleanor’s father (a three term Liberal MP) supported women’s suffrage. He regularly attended local suffrage group meetings and supported John Stuart Mill’s attempt in 1866 to amend franchise legislation to include women. Eleanor studied Philosophy at Somerville College, Oxford, after leaving university she joined her local branch of the NUWSS and in 1897 was appointed Honorary Secretary of Liverpool NUWSS. As a suffragist Eleanor favoured peaceful and law-abiding methods of campaigning. She believed that the more militant and extreme acts carried out by the WSPU were counterproductive. She argued, to gain the vote, women needed to gain positions of power and influence at a local level. In 1909 Eleanor put her theory to the test, ran for public office and won. She was the first woman to be elected to Liverpool City Council. Eleanor’s first act in office was to secure a pledge from the council to publicly support the enfranchisement of women. The Census return for the Rathbone family home at Greenbank House, records Eleanor as single female living with her mother and number of domestic servants. Her full title in the Occupation column is difficult to read. However, it does mention her as a member of Liverpool City Council and her ‘political organising’. Eleanor’s approach to politics was the epitome of ‘doing things by the book’ so her compliance with the 1911 Census is not surprising. Eleanor served on Liverpool Council as an Independent Councillor for twenty-six years campaigning for better working conditions, child welfare reform, and the abolition of slum housing. Her career as suffrage campaigner included the negotiation of an important modification to the Representation of the People Act 1918. Eleanor’s amendment quadrupled the number of women eligible to vote at a local level. In 1919, Eleanor was appointed leader of National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship (formerly the NUWSS), under her leadership the organisation flourished and championed several female focused reforms. In 1929, she was elected to the House of Commons as an Independent MP, representing the Combined Universities seat. As an MP she set up a cross party committee to campaign for Refugee rights, coordinated the rescue of 4000 refugee children from the Basque region of Spain, and was an instrumental in the passing of the landmark Family Allowance Act. The latter is perhaps her greatest achievement as the payment still exists today in the form of Child Benefit. Sources: Susan Pederson, Eleanor Rathbone and the Politics of Conscience (2004); Krista Cowman, Mrs Brown is a Man and a Brother: Women in Merseyside's Political Organisations 1890-1920 (2004); Marij van Helmond, Mrs Brown is a Man and a Brother: Women in Merseyside's Political Organisations 1890-1920 (1992). Contributed by Jo Donnelly (The Herstorian Mum) www.theherstorianmum.co.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 Eleanor Rathbone 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(-325802.2045635364 7054569.596885038) NUWSS https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/879c50e243ce72935abed31e36f3d6e8.jpg bb5505aabc3f2f13044eb04ac0e4da5d 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 55 Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census The Populars, 22 The Square, Kenilworth, CV8 Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Single Occupation Private means Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census CUWFA Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Complies Biographical Text Eleanor Sidebottom was a regular feature at Kenilworth CUWFA meetings from 1908 onwards. The CUWFA formed in 1908 to work peacefully and constitutionally for ‘the removal of the sex disqualification from the franchise’ by bringing Conservative and Unionist’s together. A 'Miss Cross' appeared with Eleanor on these meeting on occasion, and this may have been her sister Esther Cross who lived with Eleanor. Esther was married, but there is no reference to her husband on the census form or to why she lived with her sister. The sisters were living on 'private means' and were comfortable with three servants. Their home - Populars, 22 The Square, Kenilworth - seems no longer to exist and has likely been renumbered or demolished. Eleanor remains ripe for further research. Contributor/researcher: Tara Morton. 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 Sidebottom Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant POINT(-175802.08458577492 6862373.694533535) CUWFA https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/f7e7646265f14b5adbf3352aec6cb224.jpg 2ebd8403611bc8a934fc47a3ff8bd0fc 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. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/8f2fb931b6f312cda6d16f31c7c63f76.png c5b0571219a296bc85b675f77958cd8f 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: Votes for Women, 10 April, 1909 p. 556. 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 38 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 8 Edith Road, Hammersmith 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 Eleonora Maund married her husband Edward in 1892 at St Pancras when she was 19 years old and he 42. He was the Director of the British South Africa Company and together they had several children. By 1911, they had been together for almost 20 years, during which time Eleonora became a supporter of the women's suffrage cause. Unfortunately, her husband did not share her views. This is revealed by the 1911 census form for the couple, completed by Edward as head of household at their home at 8 Edith Road, Hammersmith, London. Edward filled in all of Eleonora's details but she, by then a member of the local WSPU, wished to evade the census as part of the wider suffragette boycott. So, Eleanor crossed out her details in retaliation, but Edward re entered them in red ink along with the following comment: 'My wife unfortunately being a Suffragette put her pen through her name, but it must stand as correct it being an equivocation to say that she is away she being always resident here & has only attempted by a silly subterfuge to defeat the object of the Census. To which as “Head” of the family I object. E A Maund'. There was clearly considerable tension between husband and wife over this issue, but Eleonora was undeterred. She was committed to the WSPU (at least until 1912) during which time she made financial contributions to its funds and used the couples home to take in WSPU postal communications, store items for its suffrage exhibitions and hold WSPU meetings or 'working party's' there (see image). Given Edward's disapproval of his wife's involvement with the 'suffragette' movement, one can only imagine his outrage that Eleonora used their home for WSPU business. The couples dispute also raised a dilemma for Mapping Women's Suffrage. Eleonora's details are recorded on the 1911 census, so technically she is in compliance. Yet, we know that she did not comply; that she evaded but was recorded by her husband against her will. For us there was no question, that in memory of Eleonora and as testament to her voice and will, her 'silly subterfuge' had to be recorded as it was intended by her - as a census evasion. Thanks to Vicky Iglikowski-Broad for information on Eleonora. Read her blog on this topic 'A Silly Subterfuge' on our News and Events page. 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 Eleonora Maund 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(-23786.548414312154 6709042.784765323) WSPU 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 49 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 67 Owen Road, 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 Complies Biographical Text Elizabeth Aston married Thomas Carrier in 1882, and they went on to have six children (see Thomas). In 1911, the family were living at 67 Owen Road, Wolverhampton and with the exception of their daughter Lily, the remaining members of the family, both men and women, became members of the Wolverhampton branch of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies. Elizabeth Carrier served on the society's Committee from 1912 onward. She died in 1920. Contributed by Heidi McIntosh, Senior Archivist, Wolverhampton Archives. 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 Elizabeth Carrier 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(-238648.616760743 6905593.90263312) NUWSS