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Wretham , Kenneth Edward , b 1925 , telegraph operator

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Wynne , Graeme Chamley , 1889-1954 , Captain

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Young , Geoffrey Douglas Pulford , 1920-1997 , Lieutenant Colonel

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Bristol and West of England Society for Women's Suffrage

Bristol and West of England Society for Women's Suffrage (1868-1914) was founded in 1868. After the failure of JS Mills' amendment to the Reform Bill in 1867 which was to have given women equal voting rights with men, individuals interested in suffrage began to organise their efforts. With this in mind, the earliest societies in Edinburgh, London, Manchester and Dublin affiliated to a new organisation, the National Society for Women's Suffrage in 1867. The following year, this parent body helped establish a Bristol and Clifton branch with committee status. The name was changed the next year to the Bristol and West of England Society for Women's Suffrage, retaining the original executive committee of Agnes Beddoe, Mrs Alfred Brittain, Rev. J Estlin Carpenter, Mary Estlin, Florence Davenport Hill, Prof. FW Newman, J F Norris, Mrs Mill Colman (sister of JS Mill) and Lilias Ashworth (from 1869). Anna Priestman joined the following year. The National Society suffered from a lack of co-ordination between constituent branches and was replaced by the Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage in 1872. This contained members who were closely associated with the campaign to repeal the Contagious Diseases Acts that caused splits in the organisation. However, the Bristol branch chose to affiliate to it in 1872.

By 1875, the committee had been enlarged to twenty members to reflect the size of the group. It was active in the area and this effort culminated in a 'Grand Demonstration' at the local Colston Hall in Nov 1880. At this event, a deputation was appointed to wait on the Prime Minister, but this was indefinitely postponed due to the known hostility of ministers. Despite this, there was great support for the Liberal Party in the ranks of members and two of those, Anna Priestman and Emily Sturge themselves founded the first Women's Liberal Association in England. In 1898, the BWESWS affiliated to the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies in the West of England Federation. However, when the NUWSS' Election Fighting Fund policy began to urge support for Labour candidates in 1912's general election, a number of the most strongly Liberal members resigned. On the outbreak of the First World War, the political activities of the group were suspended and action was concentrated on ventures such as the Scottish Women's Hospitals supported by the NUWSS and the opening of clubs for women.

National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies: Portsmouth branch

St Joan's International Alliance Catholic Women's Suffrage Society

The Catholic Women's Suffrage Society, predecessor of the St Joan's International Alliance was founded in 1911 by Gabrielle Jeffery and May Kendall. Their aim was to create an organisation which was non-party political and which would encourage support for women's suffrage within the Catholic Church. An inaugural meeting was organised in Kensington Town Hall in July of that year and attracted participants who became the core of its 200 members under the leadership of Kathleen Fitzgerald as chairperson and Jeffery as secretary. Men were encouraged to join but could not hold posts in the group and branches were established in Liverpool, Brighton and Hastings by the end of the following year, with others to follow in Bristol and Edinburgh. In 1912, the society affiliated to the Federated Council of Suffrage Societies. From 1914, the CWSS published the newspaper the Catholic Suffragist, renamed the Catholic Citizen from early 1918, which continues to be published today. After the granting of limited franchise to women in Britain in 1918, a development that was mirrored in a large number of countries across the world, the society refocused its aims on a wider scale to consider social issues affecting women. This prompted a change of name to reflect this: it became the St Joan's Social and Political Alliance in 1923. From this time on, its international work expanded, from becoming a founder member of the liaison committee of international female organisations in 1924 to the presentation of a report to the League of Nations on the subject of female status in African and Asian states in 1937. This international work continued after the Second World War. Its areas of interest now included the slave trade, women's education and professional development, employment, divorce, prostitution and marital abuse, advising the United Nations on these matters and becoming recognised as an official consultative body by the UN, UNESCO and the World Labour Organisation since 1952. The group which continued in the United Kingdom became known as the Great Britain and Northern Ireland Section of the St Joan's International Alliance in 1954 and was active in the international body's efforts to support the introduction of women priests since the Vatican Council of 1961. However, it has declined to become a 'Catholic' organisation and remained an 'organisation of Catholics' from that time in order to maintain its independence of opinion.

Women's Tax Resistance League

International Bureau for the Suppression of Traffic in Persons , British National Committee for the Suppression of the White Slave Trade

At the end of the nineteenth century, the widespread campaign against the Contagious Diseases Acts had had the effect of focussing attention on the issue of prostitution. This had the result of encouraging the growth of groups like the National Vigilance Association whose aim was to work against the trade and its causes. In 1898, this body agreed to address concerns about the international aspect of prostitution and began laying the foundations of an international federation of bodies, working towards the abolition of the traffic in persons, which came into being in 1899. This International Bureau for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons consisted of representatives from each of the constituent bodies, including five from the National Vigilance Association itself. Subsequently, this core of five became the English National Committee in accordance with the International Bureau's constitution regarding its branches. Subsequently, other British groups and societies were requested to send representatives to their meetings so that in 1907 the organisation became the British National Committee for the Suppression of the White Slave Trade. Six years later, their increasingly broad base may be judged from a list of member associations and societies in 1913: Church Army, Church of England Moral Welfare Society, Association for Moral and Social Hygiene, West London Mission, British Social Hygiene Council, Catholic Women's League, Manchester Moral Welfare Association, Alliance of Honour, National Vigilance Association, Liverpool Hygiene Association, National Vigilance Association of Scotland, Jewish Association for the Protection of Women and Girls, the International Bureau, London Haven for Women and Girls, Missions to Seamen, National Council of Women, Public Morality Council, Central After Care Association for Women and Girls, Presbyterian Church of England, Methodist Church, and the Hull Vigilance Association. During World War I the Committee did not meet between 1915 and 1918 but was reconstituted in 1919 when its name was changed to The British National Committee for the Suppression of the White Slave Traffic and the International Traffic in Women. By 1932, membership was open to all major British organisations doing practical work for the protection of women and children and the group flourished throughout the 1930s. World War II again disrupted international work and in the post-war years membership was widened once more to include societies working for the protection of women and children. The National Vigilance Association's faced financial difficulties after the war, leading to its amalgamation with the British National Committee in 1953. The new body was called The British Vigilance Association and the National Committee for the Suppression of Traffic in Persons, but was generally known as the British Vigilance Association.

Women in Gynaecology and Obstetrics

Cameron , Alice , b 1892 , educationalist

Alice Cameron spent a large part of her childhood in Egypt before returning to England to be educated at Blackheath High School. She then studied at Somerville College, Oxford from 1910, graduating in Classics in 1914. She went on to be trained as a volunteer nurse at St Bartholomew's Hospital, serving in Reading and then France until illness forced her to return home in the winter of 1916. She subsequently began organising the Federation of Women Workers trades union in Woolwich Arsenal until the end of the war. After the Armistice, she began work with the Young Men's Christian Association and was sent to France to undertake educational work with the troops remaining there. In 1920-21, she spent a year as a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Bangor then spent a term doing the same at Somerville. It was then for Oxford's Extra-Mural Delegacy that she began to teach the tutorial classes of the Workers' Educational Association in Lincoln that she would continue for the next fifteen years. There, she introduced a policy of giving the products of the practical classes, such as carpentry, to individuals and organisations that were in need of them. From this developed the independent People's Service Club, the first scheme for the voluntary service of the unemployed in the country, which continued this work in the town. Cameron described this in the book, 'Civilisation and the Unemployed' in 1934. She would later be asked to sit on the Unemployment Committee of the NCS and the Archbishop of York's Committee on Unemployment. At the end of the 1930s, when unemployment was falling in Lincoln, Cameron left for London where she became active during the Blitz. She also continued her work with the YMCA's educational service. After the War, she worked for the Allied Control Commission in Germany from 1945 to 1949, first, as an adviser on the women's work and then on the question of education. When she returned, she became one of the resident tutors in the centre established to allow German visits to become familiar with the United Kingdom in the post-war period. She subsequently became a lecturer for London University's Extra-Mural Department.

Askanasy , Anna Helene , fl 1930-1970 , feminist and writer

Ramsay , Annie , fl. 1913 , suffragist

Stott , Catherine Mary Charlotte , 1907-2002 , née Waddington , journalist and author x Stott , Mary x Waddington , Mary Charlotte

Catherine Mary Charlotte Stott (1907-2002), known as Mary, was born in Leicester. She was the only daughter of two journalists, Robert and Amalie Waddington (nÃ©e Bates), and had two older brothers. Her uncle, Henry Bates, was a local journalist. For nearly 50 years she worked in newspapers. Mary became interested in politics after accompaning her mother to meetings of local women Liberals during the First World War. Her first memory was of being driven around with a green ribbon in her hat, campaigning in the 1911 general election. After attending Wyggeston Leicester grammar school Mary worked as a temporary copyholder at the Leicester Mail, and then at the age of 19 she was appointed the women's editor. She was unable to join either the Typographical Association or the Correctors of the Press Association because neither accepted women members. In 1931 she moved to the Co-operative Press in Manchester, where she edited the two pages of the weekly Co-op News devoted mainly to reports of the women's co-operative guild, and children's publications. In 1945 she accepted John Beavan's offer of a sub-editing job on the Manchester Evening News. In 1950 she was sacked in order to protect the male succession to the post of chief sub-editor. She spent the next seven years mainly in 'domesticity'. In 1937, Mary married Ken Stott, a journalist at the News Chronicle, always known to her simply as 'K'. They lived in Heaton Moor, Cheshire until he died in 1967, at the age of 56. They had one daughter, a journalist named Catherine. Stott later moved to a flat in Blackheath, south London. In 1957 the then Guardian's editor, Alastair Hetherington, asked Mary to edit the paper's women's page, and she became the women's page editor of the 'Guardian' until 1972. Mary had a keen interest in equal rights for women, but also other forms of discrimination: poverty, unemployment or disability. She was particularly keen on women's financial independence. The Mainly For Women title became, in 1969, Woman's Guardian, which ran until 1973. After a two-year change of tack as Guardian Miscellany, Guardian Women re-emerged, with Stott still a contributor. Stott encouraged women - both professional and non-professional writers - to write articles that were published in her pages, often receiving over 50 unsolicited manuscripts per week. She was a founder member in 1970 of the pressure group Women in Media and last president of the Women's Press Club in 1970. She also established the National Association for Widows, of which she was president from 1993 to 1995. She chaired the Fawcett Society from 1980-1982. Her autobiography, 'Forgetting's No Excuse', was published in 1973 and it focused on her experience of widowhood. Her second volume of memoirs, 'Before I Go' (1985), contained reflections on old age. Stott's other books include: 'Organisation Woman: The Story of the National Union of Townswomen's Guilds' (1978), 'Ageing for Beginners' (1981), 'Women Talking: An Anthology From the Guardian Women's Pages 1922-1953 and 1957-1971' (1987). She was also interested in classical music and in painting. She received several honours: she won the Granada Award for the liveliest daily interest page in journalism in 1971; an honorary fellowship from Manchester Polytechnic in 1972; awarded the OBE for services to journalism in 1975; an honorary MA from the Open University in 1991; and an honorary doctorate from De Montfort University, Leicester, in 1996.

Science, Art and Technical Institute , St James's Road, Kingston-upon-Thames Kingston Technical College Kingston College of Technology Kingston Polytechnic Kingston University Kingston School of Art Kingston College of Art

Science and art evening classes began in Kingston-upon-Thames in c1875, forming part of late 19th-century developments in the provision of technical and design education. The classes were funded by private subscriptions, with further funds from the School Board, Surrey and Kingston Councils, and the Science and Art Department at South Kensington (part of the Board of Trade). In the session 1878-1879, taking place in the National School, Wood Street, classes included drawing and, in science, geometry, building construction, physiology, chemistry, and physics. These technical and design classes became known as the Fife Road 'Polytechnic', which had additional funds from taxation including funds resulting from the Local Taxation (Customs and Excise) Act 1890 ('whisky money') and the penny rate of 1889. This in turn evolved to form the Science, Art and Technical Institute, St James's Road, in 1899. In 1902 Surrey County Council assumed full responsibility. College status was granted by the Board of Education in 1926. In 1930 the Technical College and School of Art were divided, the latter moving to Knights Park in 1939.

Advanced qualifications included external University of London degrees. Later degree qualifications, in subjects such as technology and design, were subject to external validation by outside bodies, for instance the National Council for Technological Awards (known as the Hives Committee). There was a particular association between the aviation industry in Kingston and its environs and Kingston Technical College, which secured the first Technical College degree course (Dip Tech) in aeronautical engineering in 1957. Other such courses in science and engineering subjects - based on the sandwich principle, which balanced industrial training and college education - followed. The College was also to develop courses in commercial fields such as accountancy, banking, economics and management.

In 1962 Kingston Technical College was split, with Kingston College of Technology having responsibility for advanced courses, and non-advanced courses the responsibility of the newly-formed Kingston College of Further Education. Kingston Art College took on the role of an advanced centre for art and design, with responsibility for non-advanced art and design courses passing to other colleges in Surrey. The College developed expertise in such fields as fashion and graphic design.

The 1960s was a period of growth for higher education, exemplified by the Robbins Committee Report of 1963, which advocated the extension of advanced education to greater numbers. The National Council for Technological Awards was replaced in 1965 by the Council for National Academic Awards (CNAA), which validated degrees from non-university institutions. In 1965 Kingston College of Technology and Kingston College of Art (renamed in 1965) became the responsibility of the Local Education Authority of the new Royal Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames. Kingston was among the 30 institutions chosen by the government in 1966 to provide advanced polytechnic education (under the White Paper, 'A Plan for Polytechnics and Other Colleges', Cmd 3006), and as a result the Technical College and Art College joined to form Kingston Polytechnic on 1 January 1970, with a new governing body and administrative structure. Its new identity was recognised at a designation ceremony in March 1970. The Academic Board re-shaped the structure, substituting Schools for each disciplinary field in place of the former departments. Academically the emphasis shifted from London University degrees to CNAA degrees, in subjects in which the institution already specialised. In 1971 the Polytechnic was invited to become a regional centre co-ordinating management education and consultancy, and the resulting Kingston Regional Management Centre was located at New Malden.

The site at Penrhyn Road (first acquired in 1950, where buildings were subsequently erected for Kingston College of Further Education) was transferred in 1962 to Kingston College of Technology, which made further additions. Extensions were made to Knights Park in 1961 and 1968 and a tower block constructed at Penrhyn Road in 1969. The old Hawker factory at Canbury Park (acquired in 1967) was adapted to use for engineering courses. The Penrhyn Road, Canbury Park and Knights Park sites were inherited by the Polytechnic. Pressure on accommodation after its formation led to the construction of new buildings at Knights Park, completed in 1978. The Polytechnic acquired the premises of Gipsy Hill College of Education at Kingston Hill following its absorption in 1975. The Polytechnic opened sporting facilities at Tolworth (1974) and acquired premises for student residences at Clayhill (1973) and Kingsmead (1974).

Under the Higher and Further Education Act (1992), which created a single funding council, the Higher Education Funding Council, for England and abolished the remaining distinctions between polytechnics and universities, allowing the former to grant their own degrees, Kingston Polytechnic became Kingston University.

In 2002 Kingston University had four sites, at Kingston Hill, Knights Park, Penrhyn Road, and Roehampton Vale, and c14,500 students.

For further information see the published history Kingston Polytechnic (1980).

Murdoch , Dame , Jean Iris , 1919-1999 , author x Murdoch , Iris

Murdoch , Dame , Jean Iris , 1919-1999 , author Foot , Philippa , 1920-2010 , philosopher

Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin, Ireland on 15 Jul 1919. When she was very young Iris and her parents moved to London, England, and Iris studied at Frobel and Badminton Schools. She followed this with studies in classics, ancient history and philosophy at Oxford, and further study at Cambridge. During the war years Iris worked for the Treasury in London, and then joined the UNRRA providing relief in formerly occupied countries in Europe. In 1948 she became a fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford, where she taught and researched philosophy.

Iris Murdoch wrote a number of tracts on philosophy, however it is for her novels that she is best known. She wrote 26 novels in total, her first being Under the Net published in 1954. Other notable works include The Bell and The Sea, the Sea, for which she won the Booker Prize. Her last novel, Jackson's Dilemma, was published in 1995. In her youth Iris Murdoch had relationships with a number of individuals, including Elias Canetti. She met author and scholar John Bayley while at Oxford, and they married in 1956. She wrote to a great number of people and maintained friendships in this way. Later in life Iris Murdoch was diagnosed with Alzheimers disease, the first effects of which she had attributed to writer's block. She died in 1999.

Philippa Foot was born on 03 Oct 1920. She studied at the University of Oxford before and during the Second World War, where she met Iris Murdoch. She moved to London in 1943 and shared a flat with Iris Murdoch while she worked at Chatham House in St James’s Square, moving out again in Spring 1945. She met historian Michael Foot in 1944 and they married in 1945, and later separated in 1960. The period of her marriage was one of estrangement from Iris Murdoch as the latter had formerly dated and then rejected Michael Foot, once the marriage ended they rekindled their friendship and remained in contact throughout the rest of Murdoch’s life. After the war in 1947 Philippa Foot went to teach philosophy at Somerville College Oxford where she remained until she left to take up a number of posts in the US. She eventually settled at the University of California in Los Angeles in 1976 and remained here until her retirement. She was a very well known moral philosopher, and was known for basing her philosophy in actual real life examples as opposed to theory. She died, aged 90, in 2010.

Murdoch , Dame , Jean Iris , 1919-1999 , author Callil , Carmen , b. 1938 , publisher