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Margaret Irwin (1858–1940) – trade unionist, suffragist and founder member of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women's Suffrage; Christina Jamieson (1864–1942) – writer and suffragette; Maud Joachim (1869–1947) – suffragette who was one of the first suffragettes to go on hunger strike
Jessie Margaret Soga, LRAM (21 August 1870 [1] [2] – 23 February 1954 [3] [4]) was a Xhosa/Scottish contralto singer, music teacher and suffragist.She was described as the only black/mixed race suffrage campaigner based in Scotland. [5]
His father was Peter McLagan (1774–1860), and his mother was an unknown black woman. [2] His father co-owned a sugar plantation with Samuel Sandbach. When the UK Government emancipated the slaves in the 1830s, they paid over £21,000 (£2,791,310 in 2020) in compensation to the elder McLagan and Sandbach for the legal emancipation of over 400 ...
Scottish suffragettes released from prison with Flora Drummond. Later Scotland's suffragettes were part of the British Women's Social and Political Union militant movement, and took part in campaigns locally and in London; for example when Winston Churchill arrived to stand for election as M.P. in Dundee in 1908 he was followed by 27 of the national leaders of the women's suffrage movements.
This list of suffragists and suffragettes includes noted individuals active in the worldwide women's suffrage movement who have campaigned or strongly advocated for women's suffrage, the organisations which they formed or joined, and the publications which publicized – and, in some nations, continue to publicize– their goals.
Ethel Agnes Mary Moorhead (28 August 1869 – 4 March 1955) was a British suffragette and painter [1] and was the first suffragette in Scotland to be forcibly-fed. She was also a patron of This Quarter, a journal published by Ernest Walsh. The journal featured writers such as Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce and Ezra Pound.
Suffragette sisters and hunger strikers Arabella and Muriel Scott joined whilst students at the University of Edinburgh (before 1908). [12] The organisation campaigned until (some) women got the right to vote in 1918, then renamed as the National Union of Women for Equal Citizenship went on to fight for women's issues. [13]
On Saturday 10 October 2009 5000 people paraded through Edinburgh in autumn sunshine to commemorate the work of the suffrage movement, to celebrate women's achievements in the intervening 100 years, and to re-energise women's commitment to political representation and action in Scotland. [2] "The suffragettes wanted votes for women; these re ...