24 10 286 https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/d4d2813698df98cd20bf287fd688764d.jpg d73af88104d725b428e6abd18896bc46 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Source: The National Archives. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project 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 66 Hill Street, Coventry Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Single Occupation Teacher and almoner 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 Mary was the daughter of Henry Scampton, a former Mayor of Coventry and well known member of it's city council. She was a teacher and founded with her sisters a private school in Hill Street. She also sat on Coventry's Education Committee from 1903 to 1930 as well as working as an almoner for Spencer's Pensions - a pension charity for women. Mary joined the law abiding Coventry Women's Suffrage Society (affiliated to the NUWSS) and by 1914 had become its Vice president. Active in politics broadly, in 1917, she also became Honorary secretary of the newly founded Coventry branch of the National Union of Women Workers, and in 1920 was appointed a Justice of the Peace. Mary worked hard for local charities in Coventry mostly those related to girls welfare in the city and for educational charities like Soothern and Craner. She retired in 1930 and moved to Brighton with her sister Emma. Sadly, she died there the following year aged 73. Researcher: Tara Morton. Coventry research funded by 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 Scampton Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant |3|0.0000000|0.0000000|osm POINT(-168769.43731536958 6874443.777094154) NUWSS https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/ce70b5522dfd57a8a39bef17a6a2e193.jpg 10f081544de986e30863571142911cfc Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Source: The National Archives Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation None given Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 53 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 Red House, Muster Green, Haywards Heath, Sussex. Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census NUWSS Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Complies Biographical Text Mary Spooner was the second of ten children of an interesting family. A sister, Kate Lee, a founder member of the English Folk Song Society, recorded the Sussex folk singing family, the Coppers, as early as the 1890s. Mary first came to notice as a suffrage campaigner in Sussex in 1909 with ‘an eloquent speech’ at the Cuckfield Debating Society. This had been formed earlier that year with, on its committee, Edith Bevan and Edith Payne, who shortly afterwards founded the Cuckfield Women’s Suffrage Society. Mary was a practised and accomplished speaker: as secretary of the Southern Section of Women’s Co-operative Guilds, she had spent almost 20 years addressing meetings in London and the South-East that resulted in the formation of local branches of the WCG. Mary had subscribed to both the London Women’s Suffrage Society and the Women’s Freedom League (WFL) but having taken up residence in Haywards Heath with her mother and sister Edith, she contributed her skills to the fledgling Cuckfield Women’s Suffrage Society, launching its series of monthly ‘At Homes’ in Cuckfield’s Queen’s Hall with ‘a capital address’. In early 1910 she chaired a meeting at the Co-op Hall in Haywards Heath to form a Haywards Heath NUWSS branch, becoming its secretary then chair. Also, in 1910, Mary succeeded the Dowager Countess of Chichester as the only woman on the Haywards Heath Board of Council School Managers, and, despite, as she said ‘being a comparative stranger in the Parish’, joined Edith Payne on the Haywards Heath Board of Poor Law Guardians replacing the only other woman Guardian who was resigning. Throughout 1910 and 1911 Mary continued to speak at meetings to do with forming local NUWSS branches. At Horsted Keynes she spoke on one occasion with Louisa Martindale and Marie and Charles Corbett; and on a second with Brighton’s Flora de Gaudrion Merrifield. With the Surrey, Sussex and Hamps NUWSS Federation organiser, Barbara Duncan, she held a successful meeting to form a Burgess Hill branch and spoke at Lindfield with Lady Betty Balfour in the hope of establishing a branch there. With Rose Chute Ellis, she addressed the first public women’s suffrage meeting in Danehill. On Monday 21 July 1913, Mary was among supporters waiting at Muster Green, Haywards Heath, to join the Suffrage Pilgrims marching up from Burgess Hill to Cuckfield, and she set off with them from Cuckfield the following morning. She was at the Hyde Park rally at the end of that week with Edith Bevan, Edith Payne, Rose Chute Ellis, Susan Armitage, Flora de Gaudrion Merrifield, and Alys Russell. During the War, Mary continued to demonstrate her abilities as an organiser. She and Kate Miller, whose husband Douglas had photographed the Suffrage Pilgrims, were Haywards Heath contacts for the NUWSS appeal for women forage workers. Mary worked with Rose Chute Ellis and others to inaugurate the Cuckfield Children’s Welfare Society, an Infant Welfare Centre and a Haywards Heath Council of Social Welfare and she chaired the committee of the Haywards Heath War Work Guild. Sources: Queen Co-operative News, Woman’s Signal London, Home Counties local weekly newspapers, Women’s Franchise, Common Cause, Mid Sussex Times, West Sussex County Times, Bognor Regis Observer, Kent, and Sussex Courier. Contributed 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 Mary Spooner 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(-12109.779484769779 6621311.233790915) NUWSS https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/d3de9a4bc990b8a9d004466bcd6c8e97.jpg 531e982d2e2f85d3f59ce44d58fd3c68 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 47 Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 32 Skircoat Green, Halifax, West Riding, HX3 ORX Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Married 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 Mary and Arthur Taylor were pioneer members of the early labour movement in Halifax. As a member of the engineers’ union, he was victimized, lost his job  ~ and then was elected a Labour councillor. Mary was a key member of the Women’s Labour League and was elected a Poor Law Guardian. They had lived in the terraced suburbs of Pellon Lane, birthplace of Halifax’s nest of suffragettes. They had one daughter, Hilda, who as a teenager somehow managed to stay on at school. In 1905, the Taylors moved out of smoky Halifax to more rural Skircoat Green, and into a larger house ~ with six rooms. At New Year 1907, when the Halifax WSPU branch was formed, Mary was undoubtedly a moving spirit; and she was among the 22 Halifax women who signed the ILP Manifesto to the WSPU. Then in February 1907, Mary went down to London to take part in the WSPU’s Women’s Parliament, was arrested ~ and was sentenced to 14 days in prison. In 1911, when Emmeline Pankhurst came to address a crowded meeting in the Halifax Mechanics’ Institute on 30 March, Mary was undoubtedly present: her husband, Councillor Arthur Taylor, proposed the resolution supporting the Conciliation Bill. Certainly, for the census boycott three days later, we can be absolutely sure that Mary was an evader. Both Mary and Arthur Taylor were appointed magistrates. Alderman Arthur Taylor JP died in Dec 1923, and Mary Taylor JP in April 1934, aged 70. For more see, Liddington, Rebel Girls: their fight for the vote, 2006. 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 Taylor 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(-207407.50298675176 7114078.075421537) WSPU https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/e476cc98829e7b2908253a55a62c56b8.jpg a9b50a7151d8c4ead41cd6ebe30245a7 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 Maud is recorded as 'Suffragist worker' on the 1911 census. Source: The National Archives. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Suffragist worker Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 40 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 Sulney Fields, Upper Broughton, near Melton Mowbray 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 Daughter of Alice and Benjamin Dowson, Alice Maud known as Maud Dowson, was very active in suffrage and social work. She stayed living at home with her parents and she particularly helped look after her sister Hester’s children as recorded in 'What Grandmother said' by Alix Meynell one of Hester’s children. On the 1911 census, Maud's occupation is given as 'Suffragist worker' though it is not clear whether this was a paid position. On her death probate went to Bernard Withers Dowson and Alexander Dowson her brothers and the value of her estate was £15,161.7.4. Her ashes are scattered at the family home at Upper Broughton. Researched and contributed by Nottingham Women's History group www.nottinghamwomenshistory.org.uk. Sources: Dame Alix Meynell ''What Grandmother Said': Life of Alice Dowson, 1844-1227' (1998); No Surrender! Women's Suffrage in Nottinghamshire, Rowena Edlin-White (Ed.) Nottingham Women's History Group ISBN:978-1-900074-31- 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 Maud 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(-110955.25340395288 6951330.666444885) NUWSS 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 23 Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Single Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 10 Clifton Street, 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 Maud Gertrude was born in 1888, the daughter of Dominic and Mary Clara Dilger immigrants from Baden, Germany. An occupation for her is not listed on the 1911 census. Maud along with her sisters joined the Wolverhampton branch of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, collected subscriptions and delivered society notices on the Tettenhall Road. Whether she was the 'Miss Dilger' who wrote a 1914 play for the suffrage society to raise funds (see Lucy Dilger for full account) is not clear. However, we do know that Maud married Cecil H. Wood in Conway in 1920, and they had a son, Dennis J. C. Wood, born in Wolverhampton in 1923. Maud died in Wandsworth in 1966. 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 Maud Gertrude Dilger 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(-238035.802964012 6906423.26349089) NUWSS https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/cd6bbb20cff86be3e09a35c40295dde2.jpg 882dbdb3a8ae57c8617da6a960918800 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 Maud Parry, 27 Feb 1920 by Bassano Ltd. Source: The National Portrait Gallery, London. 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 60 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 Knightscroft, Rustington, West Sussex Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census NUWSS Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Complies Biographical Text Lady Maud Parry appears on the 1911 Census at the Gloucestershire family home of her husband, composer Sir Hubert Parry. The couple’s own home was Knightscroft, Rustington, near Littlehampton, close to the home of Agnes and Rhoda Garrett, sister, and cousin respectively of Millicent Garrett Fawcett. In December 1909, Maud chaired a Gloucester Women’s Suffrage Society meeting; speakers included her husband, Millicent Garrett Fawcett, and Alys Russell. In 1910 she became President of the new Littlehampton Women’s Suffrage Society, and, in 1911, of the Brighton and Hove Women’s Franchise Society (BHWFS). In 1911, Maud chaired two meetings in support of the Conciliation Bill then before Parliament: in May at St James Hall, Worthing, where speakers included Lady Betty Balfour, Marie Corbett, and Israel Zangwill, and in September at Rustington House. In February 1912, the Parrys were ‘among the distinguished men and women’ on the platform at the Albert Hall mass meeting addressed by Millicent Garrett Fawcett and Lloyd George. Tiny by comparison but described as ‘breaking new ground’ was the meeting Maud chaired at Arundel in June, addressed by Alys Russell, Sir Harry Johnston of nearby Poling, and Cicely Corbett. Maud was on the platform at a BHWFS demonstration in November 1912 attended by representatives of the 49 branches of the Surrey, Sussex, and Hampshire Federation, and from the National Union of Women Workers, the Trades Council, the Women’s Local Government Association, the Independent Labour Party, and the British Women’s Temperance Association. In 1912, she was among over 400 signatories of a letter to the Press, MPs, and the committee representing the West End businesses vandalised by militant suffragettes, deploring such lawless action, but urging the committee to pursue the redressing of the militants’ grievances rather than demand punitive legislation. Meanwhile, her husband joined GB Shaw, George Lansbury, Lord Lytton, Granville-Barker, Sir Arthur Pinero, Israel Zangwill, and other well-known men, in contributing to the Pall Mall Magazine their arguments in favour of women’s suffrage. On 19 July 1913 Maud led the Littlehampton contingent of Suffrage Pilgrims from Littlehampton Station to Rustington. Here they were joined by Sir Hubert Parry, before ‘entraining’ to Brighton where the Parrys were to head the procession of over 100 Pilgrims northwards on the Monday morning. In October 1913 Maud, Alys Russell and Florence de Fonblanque, participated in meetings held during a Suffrage march from Cosham to a Church Congress in Southampton. In November, these three women spoke at a meeting in Littlehampton chaired by Sir Harry Johnston. In February 1914 Maud was on the platform at a Lewes Women’s Suffrage Society meeting; in April she spoke at a BHWFS meeting; and in June she chaired a suffrage meeting hosted by Miss Holland at 1a Holland Walk, South Kensington. At the outbreak of War, the Parrys, helped by Alys Russell, held a meeting at Knightscroft to discuss how women could help the war effort. Towards the end of the War, Sir Hubert Parry’s setting of William Blake’s Jerusalem was to become the celebratory ‘voters’ hymn’. Sources: Common Cause, Bognor Regis Observer, Brighton Gazette, Littlehampton Gazette, Sussex Advertiser, Sussex Express, West Sussex Gazette. Contributed by Frances Stenlake, independent writer and 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 Maud Parry (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(-56964.96641825833 6587111.38115908) NUWSS Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Not known Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 45 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 The Acorn, Spout Hill, Rotherfield, East Sussex. 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 Maud Roll lived at The Acorn, a house built in the grounds of Oakdene, the home of her friend and fellow campaigner (see) Violet Honnor Morten. Maud appears to have been a member of the WSPU who joined the Women’s Tax Resistance League (WTRL), formed in 1909 of militant and constitutional campaigners. In 1911, she appears to have taken part in the WSPU boycott of the Census. Another Rotherfield resident, Dr Sophia Jex-Blake, had long railed against the taxing of unenfranchised women, and it was just months after her death in January 1912 that the Kent and Sussex Courier reported that Maud Roll would be the district’s first WTRL ‘martyr’. She would be supported by WTRL secretary Mrs Kineton-Parkes, MLWS (Men’s League for Women’s Suffrage) secretary Dr Charles Drysdale, of Heathfield, and Honnor Morten. The following week the Crowborough Weekly called the ‘No Vote, No Taxes Sale’ a unique event in Rotherfield history. Six silver teaspoons belonging to Maud Roll were auctioned and at the meeting held on the spot and chaired by Honnor Morten, Mrs Kineton Parkes’ standard resolution - that women were justified in refusing to pay taxes until the Government granted them the vote on equal terms with men - was seconded by Drysdale and carried with one dissentient. The spoons were returned to Maud Roll that evening by Dr Helen Webb, who lived across the lane from Maud Roll and Honnor Morten and was secretary of the Rotherfield and Mark Cross branch of the NUWSS. The spoons were a present from her committee. The following year in 1913, the supportive Daily Herald carried a notice of a public auction and protest meeting to be held at Mark Cross on 24th May. The Kent and Sussex Courier reported that Maud Roll and Honnor Morten had again refused to pay their taxes and had yielded to the police a silver salver and a gold ring for public auction. These items were sold from a wagonette on the village street where a crowd of more than 150 people assembled. Immediately after this second distraint sale, another protest meeting was held by the WTRL. Maud Roll presided, declaring that she and Honnor Morten would be at Mark Cross crossroads every year until they won the right to vote. The large crowd was also addressed by Anne Cobden Sanderson, founder member of the WTRL, and by Reginald Pott of the MLWS. In June 1914 Maud Roll was the subject of a third distraint sale, when a silver dish was auctioned in the Pantiles Assembly Rooms, Tunbridge Wells. The protest meeting held outside on the Common afterwards, was addressed both by Mrs Kineton-Parkes and by Mrs Cavendish Bentinck of the New Constitutional Society for Women’s Suffrage. The following month Maud Roll, who moved into Oakdene following Honnor Morten’s death, hosted a meeting there of Dr Helen Webb’s NUWSS branch - the speaker being Ada Nield Chew, a former factory worker, now a NUWSS working women’s organizer, who was listened to with great interest by the audience, many of whom were cottagers. From 1924 until 1934 Maud Roll was to serve on the Uckfield Rural Council as one of the three members for Rotherfield, and as a JP from 1931, until she moved to Tunbridge Wells in the early 1940s. Contributed by Frances Stenlake, Sussex suffrage 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 Maud Roll 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(26009.264686672042 6630600.906089321) WSPU https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/e83571895d1622ac8f3ce27eeec92d29.jpg 9a8012c7486c34b54a619982da9c0eea Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Teacher Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 37 Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Single Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 21 Chaucer Street, Nottingham Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census WSPU Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Evades Biographical Text May, as she was known, was born in Berkshire and was one of 10 siblings. Her father died when she was aged 26. May was a teacher and worked in a private school. It seems that May moved to Nottingham in about 1901 where she worked for the Education Committee for twenty-nine years. She was involved with the NUWSS but became active in Nottingham's WSPU branch in about 1907 and was elected Honorary secretary in 1908 until a paid organiser Rachel Barrett was appointed later that year. May was present in London on 24th of February,1909, when (see) Helen Kirkpatrick Watts was arrested outside the House of Commons. She wrote to Helen warmly supporting her action, saying she had ‘suffered terribly for the Cause’ while May herself felt a 'desperate coward' as she had escaped the worst of the conflict. In April 1911, May evaded the government census survey as part of a wider suffragette boycott, but her mother and sisters Hannah and Kate and brother George, were home at 21 Chaucer Street - unfortunately no longer there. May went on to teach at Mundella Grammar School for some years becoming Head of the Clarendon School for Girls in 1925. She died at home at 4 Whittingham Road in Mapperley after a short illness. The Nottingham Evening Post reported her death and funeral which was attended by Aldermen, Councillors, and Education Committee members. Source: No Surrender :Women's Suffrage in Nottinghamshire - NWHG. Researched and contributed by Nottingham Women's History Group www.nottinghamwomenshistory.org.uk. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource May (Catherine Mary) Burgis Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm POINT(-128684.3294636941 6975082.596230316) WSPU https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/3ad250f846bc4b985ec931c34f6698ab.jpg 362e304abe8554de07fee5aed0d90cb0 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 of The National Archives. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Horticulturalists Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 27 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 The Flower Farm, Upper Station Road, Henfield, West Sussex Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census NUWSS Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Complies Biographical Text May Martin Le Lacheur (1884-1944) was a daughter of Congregationalist merchant banker John Allen Le Lacheur of The Wilderness, Tunbridge Wells. Gladys Sherris (1885-1939), recorded as staying at The Wilderness from 1907, was the elder daughter of a Royal Navy paymaster. By 1908 Dorothy de Jersey Le Lacheur, one of May’s sisters, was holding local WSPU meetings at The Wilderness. Dorothy and May, with their elder brother and Gladys, took part in the WSPU demonstration in Hyde Park on the 21st of June 1908, driving to London in a motor car decorated with rosettes in green, white, and purple. Later in 1908, Dorothy set up a Tunbridge Wells branch of the Women’s Freedom League (WFL) running this as secretary. Her mother became treasurer of the Tunbridge Wells branch of the NUWSS. Meetings of both societies were held at The Wilderness. In the spring of 1909, as ‘M Martin, The Wilderness, Tunbridge Wells’, May placed a small ad in the WSPU’s Votes for Women newspaper: ‘Lady gardener seeks situation in private or market garden; full training; certificates and practical experience’. Nothing appears to have come of this, and a year later she and Gladys had established the Flower Farm in Upper Station Road, Henfield, and were advertising in Votes for Women, ‘boxes of choice cut flowers’ and ‘strong transplanted seedlings.’ As a commercial enterprise, the Flower Farm never rivalled the merchandise and marketing developed by (see) the Misses Allen-Brown at the Violet Nurseries nearby. As women of means, May and Gladys could afford to concentrate instead on winning professional prestige by entering their produce in top-class competitions. In July 1910, their success at the annual Women’s Agricultural and Horticultural International Union Show at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Regent’s Park, was reported in, significantly, the NUWSS paper The Common Cause: ‘Misses May M Le Lacheur and Gladys Sherris, FRHS, who within the last 12 months have established a nursery garden at Henfield, were awarded the silver Knightian medal for English hothouse melons, and a first prize for giant sweet peas and a second prize for roses.’ In 1911, as confirmation of a shift from militant to non-militant, May and Gladys complied with the Census, signing it as ‘Suffragists and nursery gardeners’ (see image). In 1912, they joined other Henfield women, notably (see) Elizabeth Robins and the Misses Allen-Brown, in contributing to a fund to help the Pethick-Lawrences, following the couple’s ejection from the WSPU. One likes to picture this group of women gathered together on the 14th of May 1913, when (see) Florence de Fonblanque and her Marchers Qui Vive, who were staying overnight in Henfield on their way from Horsham to Brighton, held a meeting in the village at 7pm. Two months later May and Gladys again triumphed at the Women’s Agricultural and Horticultural International Union Show, winning first prize for their ‘striking collection of herbaceous plants’ and were named among the ‘chief prize-takers who showed that lady gardeners are able to hold their own against male competitors’. May and Gladys left Henfield during the War, Gladys to take up ambulance work at the Front until her marriage in 1917.Sources: Kent and Sussex Courier, Votes for Women, Common Cause, Cheltenham Examiner 17 July 1913, Westminster Gazette 11 July 1913, The National Archives. Contributed 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 May Le Lacheur & Gladys Sherris 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(-31419.25835508311 6609533.938531866) NUWSS https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/1e5945ca36dc694635390ea222bb79fb.jpg fcc6771bce25718ac24d18dc178b21ba 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 Mildred Mansel. Source: https://oldshirburnian.org.uk/sherborne-the-fight-for-womens-suffrage/ https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/31ebc5cbcb32b2fa4c11cf0eeceb9d86.jpg 9ba8964a92a8dbdf62715f643ac6a7b4 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 Mildred Mansel's tree at Eagle House. The plaque states: Planted by Mildred E. Mansel 21 October 1910. Source: Photo taken by Colonel Linley Blathwayt (Bath, 1910) from Bath in Time, Bath Central Library Collection. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/110cfa8eae5f7fefe812ec6af73ab72b.jpg 0d1ca013c7d3012b95276d1f25b39812 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://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/9b06f2c8862ba052034090aed39243c9.jpg 5e4e34d999167c58ebfa4c2ddc2a6683 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 Speaker Lady Constance Lytton, Mrs Mansel in the chair. Wednesday 28th September 1910 at 3pm. Second seats (tea included) 1 shilling (Bath, 1910). Source: Bath in Time, Bath Central Library Collection. 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 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 Bayford Lodge, Wincanton, 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 Evades Biographical Text Mrs Mildred Ella Mansel (1868-1942) was the daughter of women's suffrage campaigner, Adeline Chapman and her first husband, Arthur Guest, and granddaughter of Lady Charlotte Guest, the linguist, businesswoman and collector. Her cousin, Ivor Guest, was a Liberal Chief Whip and staunch anti-suffragist. She was married in 1888 to Colonel John Delalynde Mansel and had two daughters and a son. By 1909, Mrs Mansel had become a member for the Women's Social and Political Union and was arrested that year after taking part in a deputation from Caxton Hall. After chairing the Sherborne NUWSS organisation in 1909, in 1910, she became the organiser for the Bath WSPU, in the same year she also set up a branch in Yeovil. In 1911, Mrs Mansel organised the Bath WSPU Census Evasion and hired 12 Lansdowne Crescent in Bath so that suffrage protestors could stay the night to evade the census. Thirty-six women in total evaded the census, including Mary Blathwayt, another prominent suffragette from Bath (see image). On the 6th of April 1911, the 'Bath Chronicle' produced an extensive report on the events. Mrs Mansel had invited a reporter to interview her and to show him where the evasion was going to take place before the evasion took place. The reporter met Mrs Mansel in Bath and together they walked to the house where ‘she seized the opportunity afforded by the walk to attempt to show what an unanswerable cause the Suffragettes have.’ Although being known to support militant methods, Mrs Mansel was able to tactically promote the event as anti-militant, and yet by inviting an outside witness, the reporter from the 'Bath Chronicle', into their temporary home, the women had invited the wider Bath community to reflect on the ideology of femininity and the women’s sphere, and how that very realm could in fact be a site of radical and political resistance. Mrs Mansel was fundamental to the women's suffrage campaign in Bath. As well as writing often for the 'Bath Chronicle'. The meetings she chaired for the Bath WSPU branch were often reported on, whilst her activities, such as leading many demonstrations within the city, were also acknowledged. As well as the Census Evasion, Mildred Mansel was a supporter of tax evasion; in the same year as the Census Evasion, Mrs Mansel led a demonstration at a Bath auction house to promote these tactics. In 1910, Mrs Mansel planted a tree at the Blathwayt's living memorial arboretum for the women's suffrage cause at Eagle House in Bath, alongside many other trees planted by suffragettes who had visited, including the Pankhursts. The arboretum is destroyed, but her plaque has survived and is at the Roman Baths museum. Elsewhere outside of Bath, Mrs Mansel was also highly active. She was imprisoned for a week after smashing windows at the London War Office, she was great friends with Lady Constance Lytton, and in 1913 she visited Christabel Pankhurst in Paris. Mrs Mansel also owned an apartment in London where she could carry out her activism from the city. Contributed by Ellis Naylor (BA, MA) Bath Spa University. Sources: Crawford, Elizabeth, The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866-1928, (Routledge, 2003); Hammond, Cynthia, ‘Suffragette City: Spatial Knowledge and Suffrage Work in Bath, 1909-14’, in Bath History Volume XIII, ed. By Graham Davis, (Bath Spa University, 2013); John, Angela V. 'Schreiber [née Bertie; other married name Guest], Lady Charlotte Elizabeth (1812–1895)' (2004) https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-24832?rskey=LjEZFR&result=2; Crawford, Elizabeth, 'Chapman [née Chapman; former married name Guest], Adeline Mary (1847–1931)' (2019); Hassall, Rachel, 'Sherborne & the fight for women’s suffrage' (2020) https://oldshirburnian.org.uk/sherborne-the-fight-for-womens-suffrage/; Newspapers the Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette, from the British Newspaper Archives (1910-1914). Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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