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Dr. Maude Glasgow (1876–1955) – early pioneer in public health and preventive medicine as well as an activist for equal rights Maud Gonne (1866–1953) – British-born Irish revolutionary, suffragette and actress
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 ...
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"
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.
McPhun was born on 8 July 1876. [1] Her father was a Glasgow councillor and timber merchant. She and her sister Frances McPhun joined the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in 1909, and she was the Scottish WSPU press secretary from 1912 to 1914. [2]
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.
Isabella Bream Pearce (5 May 1859 – 11 December 1929) [1] was a socialist propagandist and suffrage campaigner. She was the vice-president of the Glasgow Labour Party , president of the Glasgow Women's Labour Party, and a member of the Cathcart School Board.
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