https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/7aecd95a1947c77a15acf53f0c9a6e1e.png 8101b75edcefeedcd921dda31a649035 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 Suffrage pilgrims at Clayton, 1913. Flora Merrifield is centre wearing spectacles. Source: Women's Library at LSE. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/d175e7f79a4a31f45fddde42798274fc.png de447cbc9f2770917832f3a9ff94adef 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 Suffrage pilgrims at Clayton, 1913. Flora is centre. Inscription reverse reads: '21 Jul the Brighton Road’ pilgrimage. Miss Merrifield, the organiser of the ‘Brighton Road’ Pilgrimage standing in front immediately between the figures in the van. The cycle corps, arranged in a row, warn motorists of the approach on the pilgrims, & sell the ‘Commom Cause’’. Source: The Women's Library, LSE. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/8344bd0cf20738bd66e04c10304626cd.jpg 7c08e25addf95413e71a3573984e773c 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/5432ee21e82e0ccb31a7358ae54bcbdf.png b33bc7d4c4fca3bdc815de71bfb26ca0 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 Clifton Terrace, Brighton in the 1880s. Source: The Regency Society https://sbpc.regencysociety.org/ https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/7d34ab3fe8346f8aa1de65345cd73583.JPG 1534878ba1e51e864212f943cf2e1a14 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 Impression of Flora in the 1920s. Source: Illustration created and contributed by Malcolm Bull. 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 Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Unmarried Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 14 Clifton Terrace, Brighton. 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 Occupation Private means Biographical Text Flora de Gaudrion Merrifield, born in Brighton in 1856, retained the name of her maternal grandfather, Colonel Victor Pierre-Jean de Gaudrion, of Saint-Malo in Brittany. Her father, barrister Frederick Merrifield, became Clerk to both East and West Sussex County Councils. He and his wife were NUWSS leader Millicent Garret Fawcett’s strongest supporters when she delivered her first suffrage speech in Brighton in 1870. Following her mother’s death in 1894, Flora remained at home with her father at 14 Clifton Terrace, with, according to the 1911 Census, a cook, parlourmaid and housemaid. In 1908 Flora became secretary of the Brighton and Hove Women’s Franchise Society, not only arranging meetings in the town itself, but undertaking ‘outreach’ along the coast and inland. The BHWFS became affiliated to the NUWSS and the meeting to inaugurate the Surrey, Sussex and Hampshire Federation of NUWSS branches was held at Flora’s home in 1910. Flora and fellow members attended NUWSS Council meetings and took part in NUWSS ‘demos’ in London, and Flora led the Brighton Road contingent in the July 1913 Great Suffragist Pilgrimage to the capital. At the outbreak of WWI, Flora organised a local relief committee, and in 1916 was joint secretary of Brighton’s Patriotic Housekeeping Exhibition, held under the auspices of the NUWSS. Following the partial enfranchisement of women in 1918, she became chair of the Brighton and Hove Union for Women’s Local Government and Equal Citizenship, the successor to the BHWFS . In 1920 she attended the 1920 International Women’s Suffrage Alliance Congress in Geneva, taking up the cause of the newly-formed League of Nations. When she resigned from the executive committee of the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship (the NUWSS's successor) in 1927, tribute was paid to her work ‘that extended over many years’. She died in Surrey in 1943. Contribute by: Independent researcher & writer 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 Flora (de Gaudrion) Merrifield 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(-16391.4610585554 6590647.90861549) NUWSS