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Members representing their Federation at the 2009 AGM in Birmingham. 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).
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.
The Coventry Glass Factory Historic District is a 32-acre (13 ha) historic district in Coventry, Connecticut that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. The listing encompasses ten historically significant houses, clustered near the site of the former Coventry Glass Factory, in a linear district along what was the ...
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]
Coventry (/ ˈ k ɑː v ə n t r i / KAH-vən-tree) is a town in Tolland County and in the Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut, United States. The population was 12,235 at the 2020 census . [ 1 ] The birthplace of Captain Nathan Hale , Coventry is home to the Nathan Hale Homestead , which is now a museum open to the public.
Though sometimes said to have been founded by Simmons in 1929, records show the family was still living in Massachusetts at that time. Caprilands was to be the name of the 50-acre (200,000 m 2) plot of land in Coventry, CT bought by the Grenier family around 1930.
Soper was born on 10 January 1929, in Southampton, Hampshire, the son of Ella (nee Lythgoe), a former shop assistant and member of the local Townswomen's Guild, and Bert Soper, a shipping agent. Soon after Soper's birth the family moved to Plymouth where he attended Hyde Park Elementary School and Devonport High School for Boys . [ 1 ]
South Coventry is a census-designated place and part of the town of Coventry in Tolland County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 1,483 at the 2010 census.