28 10 286 https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/b551bc9fe20323dad0a076a291817ed1.jpg 932b9a2355725fdb27050ed67da318a4 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 Cry of the Children. C. Hedley Charlton. Circa 1908. Courtesy The Women's Library, LSE. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/57f5e7340f7136c7163801a6fc1fdd99.jpg 38fba129b92e1c8988f08e670efe1e49 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 Greetings from the Alps. C. Hedley Charlton. Circa 1908/9. Courtesy The Women's Library, LSE. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/fce42e85791e933e9a7803aa4f2502a9.jpg dd4c13b7c903def2e804085a16e53808 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 Charlotte's 1911 census record. Courtesy: The National Archives. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Artist 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 Single Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 103 Hampstead Way, London Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census ASL & NUWSS Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Complies Biographical Text Charlotte Charlton (sometimes known as Charlotte Hedley-Charlton) was born in 1866 and had seven siblings. Her mother and father, who was a coal merchant, were evidently prosperous in Charlotte’s younger years employing a governess and three servants. However, by the mid-1870s they had fallen on harder times and her father’s business was declared bankrupt. Consequently, it was important Charlotte found work and by 1891 she was teaching art at a boarding school in Saltburn, north Yorkshire. She later moved to London where between 1898-1910 she lived with suffragette Ethel Layton who in 1911 appeared in court with Marion Dunlop Wallace, for breaking two panes of glass at the Home Office. In 1911, Charlotte was lodging at 103 Hampstead Way and did not take part in the census boycott. She described herself as an ‘artist illustrator etc…magazines…etc…’ It was likely for career purposes that she signed her artwork ‘C. Hedley Charlton’ (Hedley being her father’s middle name) obscuring her gender and thus making her work more palatable to commissioning editors who were invariably men. By then, she was already a member and artist for the Artists Suffrage League formed in 1907, closely aligned with the law abiding NUWSS. Charlotte contributed to several jointly produced suffrage art works including illustrations for Cicely Hamilton’s ‘Beware! A Warning to Young Suffragists’ published in 1908 and the 'ABC of Politics for Women Politicians’ in 1909. She also produced individual post card designs for the ASL during these years including ‘The Cry of the Children’ and ‘I Pray for all Grown Ups’ available to view at The Women’s Library, LSE, London. The ASL archive there also holds several draft sketches for postcards designed by Charlotte. Whether she produced further suffrage designs for the ASL after 1909 is uncertain but she continued to independently advertise suffrage cards and calendars in the NUWSS newspaper The Common Cause. One design she submitted to the NUWSS during the First World War was considered too ‘wicked’ by them. In it three children are peering over a wall with the message: ‘When I an big I’ll buy a gun, And so will Babs & Sue. We’ll dead those Germans…every one…We’ll dead the Kaiser too’. Charlotte spent her last years living in Brighton close to one of her sisters. She died in 1945. Sources: Thanks to Elizabeth Crawford ‘Art & Suffrage: A Biographical Dictionary of Suffrage Artists’ (2018); The Women’s Library, LSE, London (ASL collection); The National 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 Charlotte Charlton 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(-21214.489315993444 6724088.177401561) NUWSS https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/dd1f22018c1f586f74f53eb1673d1507.jpg d8803bfd708796634315681034af6410 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 View of Slaithwaite from Manchester Road by Florence Lockwood, circa 1922. Courtesy Kirklees Museums & Galleries. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/c096fc10657d33b31e8f47627be36786.jpg c6d537495ffef6418382e713497c85f9 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 Florence Lockwood 1911 census. Courtesy The National Archives. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/04b9b068d6ee989fc50154576e82b3d3.jpg fa7182c96c4e5163846616ad0ef959c2 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 View from Milnsbridge looking towards Longwood and Golcar by Florence Lockwood, circa 1922. Courtesy of Kirklees Museums & Galleries. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/03d17c44e64356e110638932738c67dc.jpg 93d446dd32820fd04a50743343a32ff9 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 Huddersfield NUWSS branch banner designed by Florence Lockwood and completed in 1911. Courtesy Tolson Museum; Kirklees Museums & Galleries and West Yorkshire Archive Services. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/d458bdf4e9745d2a5a7afa6d769d5537.jpg 1eaa266293036d6ed00ff03729605d82 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 Photo of Florence Lockwood's diary. Courtesy of West Yorkshire Archives Service & Kirklees Museums & Galleries. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Artist 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 Black Rock House, Linthwaite, Huddersfield, Yorkshire 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 Florence Lockwood was born in 1861 in Devonport, Devon. She spent most of her childhood in Portsmouth, living with her parents and five siblings. Her father was a naval doctor, and she had a comfortable middle-class upbringing. In 1887, Lockwood moved to London to study at the prestigious Slade Art School. She then spent several years travelling in Europe, before returning to live alone in London, to make a modest career as an artist although no occupation is given on her census return for 1911. She retained her gift for sketching and painting throughout her life. In 1902 she married Josiah Lockwood, a woollen manufacturer, and moved to Black Rock House in Linthwaite, a village in the Colne Valley, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. The couple never had any children. She came to political activism quite late, in her mid-40s, but embraced it whole-heartedly. She first became involved in public political work in around 1907, and for the next fifteen years she was a significant figure in local politics. She was originally converted to the suffrage cause after hearing Emmeline Pankhurst of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) speak at the 1907 Colne Valley by-election. Lockwood became President of the Huddersfield Branch of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) and served on the executive of the Huddersfield branch of its successor organisation, the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship (NUSEC). Her suffrage activism included writing pamphlets, writing letters to local newspapers, attending, and speaking at meetings, distributing leaflets on walking tours, and personally persuading other women to take up the cause. She encouraged her maid, Minnie (who was also living at Black Rock House in 1911) to take an interest in politics. Using her artistic talents, she designed and embroidered the NUWSS branch’s ‘Votes for Women’ suffrage banner which depicted the Colne Valley. The banner was completed in 1911 and is now held in Huddersfield’s Tolson Museum. In 1913, she attended the International Woman Suffrage Alliance congress in Budapest. She was also involved in local politics more broadly. She was President of Colne Valley Women’s Liberal Association, served on the Huddersfield Liberal Executive, and worked as a Poor Law Guardian and a School Director. During the First World War, her beliefs changed, and she became an ardent pacifist, rejected liberalism, and converted to socialism. She attended Women’s International League meetings and was on the executive of the Huddersfield branch of the Union of Democratic Control. She had retired from political work by around 1921. When Josiah died in 1924, she moved to London, where she died in 1937. She kept a diary throughout her life, and the diaries for 1914-1920 survive at West Yorkshire Archives and Leeds University Archives. In 1932, she privately published her autobiography, An Ordinary Life. Sources: Manuscripts and Archives Huddersfield, West Yorkshire Archive Service KC909/1, F. Lockwood, ‘Autobiography of Florence Lockwood’ (unpublished typescript, 1905-1911). KC329/1, F. Lockwood, War Diary and Notes (manuscript, 1914-1915). KC329/2, F. Lockwood, War Diary and Notes (manuscript, 1916-1918). KC909/2, F. Lockwood, War Diary and Notes (manuscript, 1918-1920). Leeds, Leeds University Liddle Collection LIDDLE/WWI/DF/077, F. Lockwood, War Diary and Notes (manuscript, 1915-1916). Printed Leeds, Leeds University Liddle Collection LIDDLE/WWI/CO/056, F. Lockwood, Printed Diary Extracts (privately printed for small circulation, 1921). Lockwood, F., An Ordinary Life, 1861-1924 (Loughborough, 1932). Lockwood, F., The Enfranchisement of Women (Slaithwaite, undated). 'Obituary: Mrs. Lockwood', The Yorkshire Post, 31 March 1937, p.5. Secondary Sources Liddington, J., Rebel Girls: Their Fight for the Vote (London, 2006). Liddington, J., The long road to Greenham: feminism and anti-militarism in Britain since 1820 (London, 1989). Online Sources Kirklees Museums and Galleries, 'Huddersfield's Suffragist Banner', https://womenssuffrageinkirklees.blogspot.com/p/huddersfields-suffragist-banner.html. Contributed by Hannah Speed, PhD candidate, Glasgow 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/. 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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/c3598a43a2479a086b27f7073950049d.jpg 1b8fd6f52049e366b93866115d09e796 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 Anna Maria is on the left with Margaret Tanner standing, and Mary on the right. Source: courtesy of Alfred Gillett Trust https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/ed613f902eb84986e38ca8bc7844161b.png aa2aa08a2570c21c2da9e2645bfce001 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 Anna Priestman later in life. Source: How the Women’s Movement Began in Bristol Fifty Years Ago, 1918 , courtesy LSE Digital Library. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/3a1c0e7b3545488c813c132d993b9791.jpg 2cf7b14fd179856083d5364fa83b05db 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 1911 census record. Source: courtesy The National Archives Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Unknown Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 83 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 37 Durdham Park, Redland, Bristol BS6 6XF 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 Anna Maria was born in Newcastle in 1828. Her mother, Rachel Bragg, was a prominent anti-slavery agitator. Alongside her sister, Mary, she signed the 1866 suffrage petition. Anna Maria and Mary moved to Bristol in 1870, living at 37 Durdham Park for the rest of their lives. In 1870, Anna Maria joined the committee of the Bristol and West of England Society for Women’s Suffrage, of which she was still a member in 1908. In 1870, alongside her sister, Anna Maria refused to pay tax, leading to their dining chairs being removed in place of the taxation payment. They were returned after their fine was anonymously paid. In 1881, alongside Emily Sturge, Anna Maria formed the first women's liberal association that would only support candidates who agreed with women’s enfranchisement. Anna Maria favoured the mobilisation of the middle and lower classes, leading to her raising £1000 for the Bristol and West England branch of the national suffrage to support organising activities and work. After the 1884 women’s suffrage movement amendment failed, Anna Maria focused on the women’s liberal association and supporting enfranchisement. After the split in the central committee for women’s suffrage in 1888, she remained with the central national society and became a member of their executive committee. Anna Maria formed the union of practical suffragists in 1896 after a defeat in maintaining the WLF's support for candidates who did support women’s enfranchisement. She wrote a pamphlet entitled ‘Women and Votes’, published by the union in 1896. This seemed a success in 1903 when the WLF agreed to only support candidates that also supported enfranchisement, but in 1905, she was removed as president of the Bristol and West England women’s liberal association. After this, Anna Maria and Mary joined WSPU in 1907, donating £25 in 1908 and continuing to contribute in 1909. Anna Maria and her sister contributed to the election expenses of George Lansbury, a suffrage candidate supported by Christabel Pankhurst. Anna Maria complied with the 1911 census, by this time she was apart of the NUWSS. As a pacifist, Anna Maria, with her sister Mary, attended the peace conference in Berne in 1892, an international forum concerning issues of international conflict. Anna Maria died within 5 days of her sister Mary in 1914, it has been inferred that neither could handle the prospect of the looming Great War. Contributed by Becca Aspden, URSS student researcher, History, Warwick University. Sources: Crawford, E. The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928 (London, 1999) pp. 565-67; Liddington, J. Vanishing for the Vote: Suffrage, Citizenship and the Battle for the Census (Manchester University Press, 2014) p.319. 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 Anna Marie Priestman 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(-291024.0899848805 6705718.838145269) https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/5e0b838b07abdb4250758c340df88d09.jpg c95f5f443fc97068aa8b130e0901f190 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 young Margaret Russell Cooke then known as 'Maye Dilke'. Source: Courtesy & copyright of The National Portrait Gallery https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/e4cdc8294e0db343a6c9998436f13108.jpg 42e859ab690e58026fe897691c394bf4 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 young Margaret Russell Cooke then known as 'Maye Dilke'. Source: Courtesy & copyright of The National Portrait Gallery. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/ceef0eb9c1245bf923f72e3a739f8ed8.jpg 20a313bb197ccbbbcf08fe988781008c 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 1911 census for Bellecroft House. Margaret was away from home, likely abroad. Source: Courtesy The National Archives. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/b3a6d782d4f85143e6f47dab1d6ee364.jpg a8a8352227b10506a2c7fb32dda9e330 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 Bellecroft House. Source: © Rev Robert Rudd, Historic England Archive https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/d609e2ede25a13bc62e6bfe105cc998e.jpg 2cfce70e67b57599dc55b3d8f2636e09 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/. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Margaret's obituary in the Evening Mail 25 May 1914. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/ebd8ea8a506df8553ad185303bb47a56.jpg cd94fdd1d93bf0f6eb30f583f21ca2d3 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 1901 census showing Margaret staying at the family home. Source: courtesy The National Archives Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Living on own means 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 Widowed Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Bellecroft House, 79 Staplers Rd, Newport PO30 2DG 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 Margaret was born in Hampton, Middlesex, on the 4th of September 1857 as Margaret Mary Smith. She was the eldest child of Thomas Eustace Smith, a shipowner and Liberal MP for Tynemouth, and Martha Mary Dalrymple. She was brought up in Newcastle upon Tyne. Her childhood home was destroyed by a suffragette arson in 1914. She was educated in Orleans, where she passed the public exam to become a French schoolmistress. She married Ashton Dilke in 1876, and they had 3 children until Ashton died in 1883. In 1886, she gave evidence in the divorce proceedings of her sister, Virginia Crawford, the founder of the catholic women’s Suffrage Society. Her testimony was loyal to her sister and incriminated her brother-in-law, politician Sir Charles Dilke. From 1879, Margaret was an active member of the National Society for Women’s Suffrage, becoming a member of its executive board in 1883. In 1885, she published a book called “Women’s Suffrage” with a foreword from MP William Woodhall and contributed to an article in 1889 that was a response to an anti-suffragist appeal against women’s suffrage. Alongside the suffrage movement, she was a member of the London school board and advocated for free education from 1888-1891. Margaret attended the International Council of Women in Washington in 1888, travelling with Alice Scatcherd and Laura Ormiston Chant. Margaret married William Russell Cooke, a lawyer and legal advisor for the Liberal Party, in 1891 at Kensington parish church. They had two sons together. Margaret became treasurer of the Central National Society for Women’s Suffrage in 1896. She also became active in the Women’s Emancipation Union in the same year. She advocated in 1897 for the creation of a national council of women to represent all the societies' women took part in. She also opposed provisions which would have curtailed the role of women in local government in 1899 and fought for seats for female shop assistants who worked long hours. After the death of her second husband, William, in 1903, she settled on the Isle of Wight at Bellecroft House in Newport. The house was in the family, as she visited her parents at Bellecroft in 1901 while the census was taking place. On the Island, she worked to form the island's suffragist movement. In 1908, Margaret spoke at a liberal meeting alongside Mrs Baring, who expressed her suffragist views were not the same as the militant suffragettes which the meeting had criticised. Margaret also spoke about education reform on the island, continuing from her days on the London school board. Margaret is absent from the 1911 census with only two servants being recorded at Bellecroft. A newspaper report dated the 22nd of April 1911, thanking those who sent flowers for a church easter festival, records her as away from home. We can reasonably assume she was abroad at this time, as she is not recorded as a visitor elsewhere in the country during the census and as a suffragist we can surmise would otherwise have complied with the census. Margaret was also a part of a town hall debate in Ryde in which she debated against Miss Gladys Potts of the National League Against Women’s Suffrage in May 1913. Margaret continued her support for the cause while battling illness and just weeks before her death, supported the formation of a Newport branch of the NUWSS at the beginning of May 1914 and was the vice president. She held a general meeting at her home, Bellecroft. Margaret died there on the 19th of May 1914. Her eldest son from her second marriage, Sidney Russell Cooke, went on to become a liberal parliamentary candidate and continued to live at Bellecroft. Sources: MacColl, N & Baigent, E, "Dilke, Ashton Wentworth (1850–1883), traveller and politician" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Date of access 2 Aug 2025; Crawford, Elizabeth, The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 18661928 (London,1999). 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 Margaret Mary Russell Cooke 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(-142436.43528112577 6568777.606138746) NUWSS https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/50619a5955ad98b69883344cc8de4809.jpg ce5063fd69a93c090825945ae7adb536 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 Eva Baring. Source: courtesy of Friends of Northwood Cemetery www.friendsofnorthwoodcemetery.org.uk/burial-record/baring-lady-eva-hermoine https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/c0f1cc25d5363749c2122d4a1fc35810.jpg df659e4e03475b89a59583fb76d4da0a 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 Eva's family home 'Nubia House' on the Isle of Wight. Source: Friends of Northwood Cemetery www.friendsofnorthwoodcemetery.org.uk/burial-record/baring-lady-eva-hermoine https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/156275be72fb3ddbfae4624501775ade.jpg a14502c9d060fdffb87f30cc71b5ac6a 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 Bearing speaks at meeting. Portsmouth Evening News 20 March 1907 https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/66133be22c74f5891312deb92795caf7.jpg 3fb32ecce95ed1e3a76c9d61aa74c996 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 Baring presides over meeting in Portsmouth. Hampshire Telegraph 14 Nov 1908 https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/5c3cacd28534ff3e42a949428916fc9f.jpg c89393d9f6c86c665aa6fb587b4c0b25 https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/40396853ead8d939025b672e3c8e3bb1.jpg 133d96a202d59afd71c5440a244ae56e 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 1911 census records Lady Eva Baring in London. However, Nubia House in Cowes was her family home, where she spent time suffrage campaigning for the island. Source: courtesy The National Archives https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/71b4df1a2bb864dfc8dd4c6e92497098.jpg 1d01d40f1c6c3798300ac569c05437a0 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 1901 census showing Lady Eva and Godfrey at Nubia House https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/787691a37c8ef46c1c00fc49a515e8bc.jpg 44c28b1ae5aa1bbd9d0b4b7a0f50b96c 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 Baring in 1929. Source: Courtesy and copyright The National Portrait Gallery https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/0d47f834c51fa4d173e300f883337412.jpg 20eb86b3bef18e0837d00ec5cab1d557 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 Details of Lady Eva Baring's funeral. Source: Hampshire Advertiser 16 June 1934. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/757bdf66060f386ddf3fd2f052aba36f.jpg 7f93fd37192e20d5d7b3fcaf3082d0e7 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 Baring's grave. Source: courtesy of Friends of Northwood Cemetery www.friendsofnorthwoodcemetery.org.uk/burial-record/baring-lady-eva-hermoine Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Private Means Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 34 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 Nubia House, Baring Road, Cowes PO31 8DH 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 Eva was born Eva Hermione Mackintosh in May 1876 in Inverness, Scotland. Her father, Alexander Aeneas Mackintosh, was the 27th chief of Mackintosh. Her Mother, Margaret Frances Graham, was the daughter of a Baronet. She married politician Godfrey Baring in 1898. They had four children, most notably Helen Azealea Baring, who was the lover of both the future king George VI and Prince George, Duke of Kent and part of the aristocratic group ‘Bright Young Things’. Godfrey was the liberal MP for the Isle of Wight from 1906-11 and was considered the father of the Isle of Wight County Council due to his 60 years of service. While living at the Nubia house in Cowes, Eva was active within the liberal associations on the island, expressing her belief in women’s suffrage. She was elected as executive of the Newport Women’s liberal association in 1906, and attended many meetings with the president, Mrs Russell Cooke. Eva, Like Mrs Russell Cooke, was a strong suffragist and did not support the militant suffragettes' actions. She was president of the Cowes Women’s Liberal association by 1907, and she chaired multiple meetings for her branch and beyond. In November 1908, she chaired a Portsmouth town hall meeting on women's suffrage attended by Lady Frances Balfour and the Liberal MP for Portsmouth. Mrs Baring was popular with the island's liberals, as the audience at a Freshwater liberal meeting in 1909, which she attended with her husband, requested she make a speech on women's suffrage. She used her position to sponsor a ball in aid of the London Society for Women’s Suffrage in June 1909, which was attended by the likes of Lady Castlereagh and Lady Frances Balfour. Eva complied with the 1911 census, in which she is recorded as living at 195 Queens Gate, London, very near to the Royal Albert Hall. As the wife of an MP and a member of the aristocracy, the family had a home in London to be close to the centre of politics and society itself. However, she has been plotted on the map at her main home on the Isle of Wight. This was the family home and the place where she actively engaged in the suffrage movement impacting her home community. During the Second World War, Eva was the commandant of Northwood Auxiliary Hospital, which was opened in 1915 after the War Office requisitioned it to be used as a Red Cross military hospital. Her service led her to be given an M.B.E. by King George V in his 1919 New Year's honours. In 1920, she became the first woman on the Isle of Wight to be appointed a country magistrate. She was the chairman of the Isle of Wight women’s nursing association as well as a member of the county education committee for the island. She was also the country commissioner of the Girl Guides. Eva passed away on the 9th of June 1934 while visiting her stepsister Lady Helen Cassel at Putteridge Bury, Luton. She had gone to stay there after being taken ill in London a month before. Her funeral in Cowes was widely attended by nobility with whom she socialised and was an integral part - Prince George and Princess Beatrice sent a wreath, as Eva had hosted the royal family during Cowes Week regatta multiple times - but also by nurses and Girl Guides who attended to “give their last salute to a former chief” demonstrating the social breadth of Eva's life and work. Sources: Mosley, Charles, Burke’s Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage: Clan Chiefs, Scottish Feudal Barons (Stokesley, Burke’s Peerage & Gentry, 2003); Beauclerk, Peter, Burke’s Landed Gentry of Great Britain (Routledge, 2001). 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 Eva Hermoine Baring (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(-145910.41136850885 6579850.711925557) https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.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://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.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://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.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://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.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://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.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://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.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://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/9460ba669774c69d2c5ccd8a403067c2.jpg 67d0a2fdde942b1c2474a88a68f81f5e 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 1911 census for John Marsh and family. Courtesy The National Archives. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/1212154aef42aabc1abb9b417e5896b7.jpg 3e4f96c5ab6d7af07c0ba5d899709c15 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 John's role in the Conservative Association. Isle of Wight County Press 17 Nov 1906 https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/6d524e71e461010223b4030d7056d128.jpg 10262bf23f00249cb6f660e2908c8dbe 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 John speaks at a suffrage meeting. 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Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Portsmouth Evening News 19 May 1913 Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Solicitor Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 64 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 St Margarets Dene, Queens Road, Shanklin, Isle of Wight PO37 6DG Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census CLWS Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Complies Biographical Text John was born in 1846 in Sandgate, Kent. He married Hannah Alice Spurr in 1877, and they would go on to have one daughter and two sons. John moved to the Isle of Wight in 1879, starting as the clerk for the clerk of the Shanklin local board and burial board. He became the town clerk of Shanklin in 1884, a position he would hold for 41 years until his death. Before this, he had other positions within local government. He acted as an agent for Major General Seely during the Boer War in 1900. He was an active member of the Island’s Conservative association, and by 1906, he was secretary for the association. John was also a practising solicitor and was a prominent figure in the police courts and in lawsuits. He complied with the 1911 census. He was recorded living at his home, St Margarets Dene in Shanklin with his wife and 3 children (see map for approximate position). John was chairman of the Shanklin branch of the Church League for Women’s Suffrage, which was formed at the beginning of 1912. His daughter, Margaret Marsh, was made the Honorary Secretary of the CLWS Shanklin branch. In February of that year, he chaired a meeting at the smaller co-operative hall in Shanklin in which he shared how he’d believed in women’s suffrage since the beginning of his interactions with politics. In May, he presided over an open-air meeting in Shanklin Square for visiting suffragists Mrs J.E. Francis of Brighton and Miss L Corben of London. In July, he travelled to the House of Commons alongside fellow Island suffragette Viscountess Eleanor Gort and other members of the movement. They travelled to ask for the MP for the Isle of Wight, Douglas Hall, to support amendments to current legislation to allow for the vote to be extended to women. In October of 1912, he chaired a meeting at Sandown Town Hall in which he apologised for his presence as he was sure everyone in the area and beyond knew his views on the topic. Norah O’Shea, parliamentary secretary of the Surrey Sussex and Hants branch of NUWSS, was a speaker at the meeting. He continued to regularly chair meetings in 1913, including one for the NUWSS and a National meeting for the CLWS. In 1914, he attended a well-attended meeting of the CLWS in Ryde. John became president of the Shanklin Conservative Association in 1923. John died in December 1925, aged 79. He had been Ill for the year leading up to his death, preventing him from working as Shanklin town clerk. He left behind his wife and three children, including his eldest son, Colonel Frank Harrison Marsh, who commanded of the Isle of Wight Rifles for a period of time. Sources: I have used various local newspaper a selection of which are featured as clippings. 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 John Marsh 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(-130740.56993813779 6556609.59312133) CLWS https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/a7506b8129a2c24b59037a58339ab9f9.jpg 0c6907fd2df4ede60e37ec20c0daf9cf 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 Stanton Coit. Source: courtesy of © Humanists UK 2025 https://heritage.humanists.uk/stanton-coit/ https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/b72b797d001afebafa66ef9b63331e97.jpg 081c891ae2423eaec403fa456b51042c 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: Isle of Wight Observer, 21 Sept 1912 https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/7cf101aeaeda29b7ab14a85b062bc73d.jpg 0213d5cbd42992fb693a6144e828073d 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: Common Cause (NUWSS Paper) 27 Dec 1912 Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Private Means Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 53 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 30 Hyde Park Gate, South Kensington, London SW7 5DJ Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census MLWS Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Complies Biographical Text Stanton George Coit was born in 1857 in Columbus, Ohio. He was educated at Amherst College, Columbia College and received his doctorate from Berlin University. His mother was friends with US women's rights activist Susan B. Anthony. He became a minister of the ethical church before moving to London in 1888 and eventually becoming a naturalised citizen. Stanton assisted in founding 40 ethical societies in Britain and became the leader of the ethical movement in England. He became a member of the Women's Franchise League in 1890. In 1903, he was an executive member of the Central Society for Women's Suffrage. He was a delegate of the 1904 conference in Berlin, which, with his wife Adela, formed the International Women's Suffrage Alliance. Dr Stanton Coit helped prepare an edition of J.S. Mill's Subjection of Women, which was published in 1906. He used notes lent by Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy, which detailed changes since 1869 when single women become eligible to vote in local town elections. She was acknowledged in his work. However, she wrote in a 1904 letter that "he will undoubtedly make a real hash of the whole matter, and him, like others of his "calibre", stop progress from happening in the movement. He became treasurer of the MLWS when it was formed in 1907 but had no official position in the movement by 1913. He complied with the 1911 census, living at 30 Hyde Park Gate with his wife Adela, 5 of their children and 8 servants. In 1912, he subscribed to the NUWSS fighting fund. During September 1912, he spoke at a meeting in Ryde on the Isle of Wight organised by his wife Adela. He called the women's exclusion from the suffrage a 'most ancient prejudice'. The meeting held at the now demolished St Clare Castle was instrumental in forming the Ryde Branch of the NUWSS on the Island. He retired from the ethical movement in 1935, and he died on the 15th of February 1944. Sources: Crawford, Elizabeth, The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 18661928 (London, 1999). 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 Stanton Coit (Dr) 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(-20222.61711577593 6710302.309241291) MLWS https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/0df740091fcd3ba611749bb7d3a9bdde.jpg ee0f9d2fae72969c0799c85587b41ea0 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 Adela Coit. Source: © Humanists UK 2025 https://heritage.humanists.uk/adela-coit/ https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/683d74e1dbb701989c42f85b49302622.jpg 5136a39e207e01875203fba9c3ae5611 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 1911 census for Adela and Dr Stanton Coit. Source: courtesy of The National Archives https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/ebc20ae560dfc2a7ab45fa6991782c1e.jpg 8f8f29c50de9857d3559fceaf66b1ec8 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 Board of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance at the International Woman Suffrage Congress in Budapest, 1913. Left to right, standing: Katherine McCormick, Adela Coit, Anna Lindemann, Annie Furuhjelm, Signe Bergmann, Chrystal MacMillan, Rosika Schwimmer. Seated: Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Carrie Chapman Catt, Marguerite de Witt Schlumberger. Source: © Humanists UK 2025 https://heritage.humanists.uk/adela-coit/ https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/f2d91a9caff6c92eb115588c1e616150.jpg ea22dd26659ffe5fbab1ec9a11eb33f1 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: Isle of Wight Observer, 21 Sept 1912 https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/b99d3f4624154fe0ac0bb91e61b637f5.jpg cd72e8bf59ef2ef30bcabb507c3bdf5e 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: Common Cause (NUWSS Paper) 27 Dec 1912 https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/b009c455cbb07f4178cac74e08e3f5c8.jpg 5196f8d76b6f6bc8341ed23c4a136c55 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 Adela Coit's obituary. Source: International Women’s News, Journal of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance, Nov 1932 https://heritage.humanists.uk/adela-coit/> Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Private Means Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 47 Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Married Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 30 Hyde Park Gate, South Kensington, London SW7 5DJ 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 Adela was born in 1863 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She married Dr Stanton Coit, her second husband, in 1898, and they went on to have 3 children. She had 3 children from a previous marriage. She attended the Berlin meeting, which formed the International Women's Suffrage Alliance in 1904, alongside her husband. She became a treasurer for the IWSA in 1908, a role she would continue until 1920. She joined the WSPU in 1907 but afterward transferred to the NUWSS. In 1912 she held a meeting for the Tax Resistance League, having left the WSPU, she was also a member of the first election fighting fund committee of the NUWSS and remained a member through to 1917. She complied with the 1911 census, alongside her husband, Stanton Coit. She was living with 5 of her children and a combination of 8 servants at 30 Hyde Park Gate in London. In 1912, she hosted a meeting on women's suffrage at St Clare's Castle in Ryde. The speakers were her husband and Mrs Archibald Mackirdy. The meeting was attended by prominent Island suffragette Mrs Russell Cooke. This meeting was the catalyst for the formation of the Ryde Branch of the NUWSS, as 30 members joined from the initial September meeting before the branch's first meeting in December of that year. In 1913, she also became a part of the executive committee of the London Society for Women's Suffrage. She was honoured as one of the pioneers of the International Suffrage Alliance at the 1929 jubilee congress. In her obituary in the journal for the IWSA, it was reported that her support remained consistent even during the war, when it was difficult for her as a German-born woman living in England. Adela died in October 1937. Sources: Crawford, Elizabeth, The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 18661928 (London, 1999). 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 Adela Coit 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(-20222.61711577593 6710302.309241291) NUWSS