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The Townswomen's Guild (TG) is a British women's organisation. There are approximately 30,000 members, 706 branches and 77 Federations throughout England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Isle of Wight. (Figures updated 1 August 2013). The Townswomen's Guild is the second largest British women's organisation.
Alice Caroline Franklin OBE (1 June 1885 – 6 August 1964) [1] was a British feminist, secretary of the Jewish League for Woman Suffrage and The Society for the Oversea Settlement of British Women, and a key figure in the running of the Townswomen's Guild.
Gertrude Isabella Morton Horton, born Gertrude Isabella Morton Robertson (26 August 1901 – 19 May 1978) was a British feminist who ran the Townswomen's Guild for over 25 years and then took a leading role in the Fawcett Society. She led a campaign for equal pay for women which led to parliamentary agreement for all public workers by 1955.
She became President of the Townswomen's Guild and remained a devout Catholic all her life and a member of St Margaret's Church, Huntly. [1] [2] She was re-united with her sister, Blanche, after 66 years in Calcutta in October 2007, when Sybil was 87 and Blanche was 85. Their elder siblings were both deceased by that point.
After the war, Craigie was returned, and was President of the North-East Federation of the Townswomens Guild. [58] By 1953, she was granted the 'signal honour' of being elected as national vice-chairman of the British National Union of Townswomen's Guilds, based in London from 1951 to 1954. [59]
Barrow also held the post of vice-president of the National Union of Townswomen's Guilds. [6] As a senior teacher, and later as a teacher-trainer, at Furzedown Teachers College and at the Institute of Education in the 1960s, she pioneered the introduction of multi-cultural education, stressing the needs of the various ethnic groups in the UK.
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Hugh was not the only politically active one – Alice, a staunch socialist, would later become a leader of the Townswomen's Guild; Helen became forewoman at the Royal Arsenal, where she was forced to resign for supporting female workers and attempting to form a trade union, and Ellis became vice-principal of the Working Men's College.