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The organisation is considered to be a non-militant suffrage association, and although it welcomed male members, it was organised and led by women. [1] Their methods of influence included drawing-room meetings, addressed by prominent male and female suffragists, as well as networking with other organisations, such as The Primrose League, West of Scotland Women's Liberal Unionist Association ...
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.
Helen Crawfurd (née Jack, later Anderson; 9 November 1877 – 18 April 1954) was a Scottish suffragette, rent strike organiser, Communist activist and politician. Born in Glasgow, she was brought up there and in London.
I.A.R. Wylie (1885–1959) – Australian writer, suffragette in UK, working on The Suffragette; Barbara Wylie (1861–1954) – organiser of the Glasgow branch of the WSPU, went on a speaking tour of Canada and gave a speech that inspired the slogan "deeds not words"
Helen Crawfurd formed a branch in Glasgow in 1915. [7] Labour Party members Annie Somers and Hope Squire were also active in the organisation, [8] and Mary Phillips worked with them during 1915 and 1916, and continued to develop with the Suffragette Fellowship and Six Point Group. [3]
Janie Allan was born to Jane Smith and Alexander Allan (who married in 1854), members of a wealthy Glaswegian family that owned the Allan Line shipping company. [2] Her grandfather, Alexander Allan, founded the firm in 1819, and by the time that her father – the youngest of Alexander Allan's five sons – took over the running of the company's Glasgow operations, the line had many vessels ...
Margaret Pollock McPhun (8 July 1876 – 1960) was a Scottish suffragette from Glasgow who served two months in Holloway Prison in London and composed a poem about another imprisoned activist Janie Allan.
Lila Clunas was born in Glasgow on 10 August 1876, [4] to parents Elsie Melvin and Hugh Clunas, a dress shop owner. [1] Her sisters were Jessie Clunas and Elsie Clunas. [5] She was schooled at Bell Baxter High School, Cupar, and completed her teacher training in Moray House Teacher Training College, Edinburgh. [1]