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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 ...
Frances Mary "Fanny" Parker OBE (1875–1924) – New Zealand-born suffragette prominent in the militant wing of the Scottish women's suffrage movement and repeatedly imprisoned for her actions Grace Paterson (1843–1925) – school board member, temperance activist, suffragist, and founder of the Glasgow School of Cookery
The following autumn, 1910, Thomson travelled to London to join the Pankhursts in their increasingly physical fight for women's right to vote. On 18th November 1910, the infamous clash between suffrage campaigners and police officers, known as Black Friday, took place on the streets of London. Thomson describes the day in her autobiography ...
Amy Sanderson née Reid (1876–1931), was a Scottish suffragette, national executive committee member of the Women's Freedom League, who was imprisoned twice.She was key speaker at the 1912 Hyde Park women's rally, after marching from Edinburgh to London, [1] and, with Charlotte Despard and Teresa Billington-Greig, was a British delegate to the 1908 [2] and 1923 international women's congresses.
Vera Louise Holme, also known as Jack Holme (29 August 1881 – 1 January 1969), was a British actress and a suffragette.Born in Lancashire, she began working as a touring male impersonator when her parents could no longer support her.
Lillias Mitchell - Suffragette campaigner from Edinburgh. Ethel Moorhead - British suffragette and painter. Needs expanded, pic and infobox. Edith Mansell Moullin - ODNB; Anna Munro - active campaigner in the women's suffrage movement from Glasgow. Needs expanded, pic and infobox. Eunice Murray - Scottish suffrage campaigner and author. Needs ...
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 ...
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