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The '''National Council of Women''' exists to co-ordinate the voluntary efforts of women across Great Britain.<ref>Serena Kelly, ‘Ridding , Lady Laura Elizabeth (1849–1939)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/50713, accessed 22 Nov 2017]</ref> Founded as the '''National Union of Women Workers''', it said that it would "promote sympathy of thought and purpose among the women of Great Britain and Ireland".<ref>http://chestofbooks.com/food/household/Woman-Encyclopaedia-1/Socities-Which-Help-Women-And-Children-No-1-The-National-Union-Of-Woman-Worke.html</ref>
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The '''National Council of Women''' exists to co-ordinate the voluntary efforts of women across Great Britain.<ref>Serena Kelly, ‘Ridding , Lady Laura Elizabeth (1849–1939)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/50713, accessed 22 Nov 2017]</ref> Founded as the '''National Union of Women Workers''', it said that it would "promote sympathy of thought and purpose among the women of Great Britain and Ireland".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ridding |first1=Laura |title={{sic|nolink=y|reason=error in source|Socities}} Which Help Women And Children. No. 1. The National Union Of Woman Workers |url=http://chestofbooks.com/food/household/Woman-Encyclopaedia-1/Socities-Which-Help-Women-And-Children-No-1-The-National-Union-Of-Woman-Worke.html |website=chestofbooks.com |accessdate=24 September 2020}}</ref>


==History==
==History==
It was founded in 1895. It changed its name to the National Council of Women of Great Britain & Ireland in 1918. In 1928 it changed its name to the National Council of Women of Great Britain.<ref>{{cite web|title=National Union of Women Workers of Great Britain and Ireland|url=http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb1924-hd6079|website=Archives Hub|accessdate=6 September 2015}}</ref>
It was founded in 1895. It changed its name to the '''National Council of Women of Great Britain & Ireland''' in 1918. In 1928 it changed its name to the National Council of Women of Great Britain.<ref>{{cite web|title=National Union of Women Workers of Great Britain and Ireland|url=http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb1924-hd6079|website=Archives Hub|accessdate=6 September 2015}}</ref>


Its early archives are held in the [[London Metropolitan University]]: Trades Union Congress Library Collections.
Its early archives are held in the [[London Metropolitan University]]: Trades Union Congress Library Collections.


[[H. Pearl Adam]] published ''Women in Council'', the history of the National Council of Women of Great Britain, in 1945.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Bain |first1=G. S. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GyY9AAAAIAAJ&dq=%22h.+pearl+adam%22&pg=PA103 |title=A Bibliography of Industrial Relations |last2=Woolven |first2=Gillian B. |last3=Woolven |first3=G. B. |date=1979-03-29 |publisher=CUP Archive |isbn=978-0-521-21547-3 |pages=103 |language=en}}</ref>
[[C.E. Humphry|Pearl Adam]] wrote the History of the National Council of Women of Great Britain in 1945.


==Notable members==
==Notable members==
===Presidents===
===Presidents===
:1895: [[Louise Creighton]]<ref name="glick">{{cite book|last1=Glick|first1=Daphne|title=The National Council of Women of Great Britain: the first one hundred years|date=1995|publisher=National Council of Women of Great Britain|isbn=978-0900915079}}</ref>
:1895: [[Louise Creighton]]<ref name="glick">{{cite book|last1=Glick|first1=Daphne|title=The National Council of Women of Great Britain: the first one hundred years|date=1995|publisher=National Council of Women of Great Britain|isbn=978-0900915079}}</ref>
:1897:
:1897: Mrs Alfred Booth
:1899:
:1901: [[Constance de Rothschild]]
:1900: [[Kathleen Lyttelton|Mrs Arthur Lyttelton]]<ref name="ReferenceA">NUWW Annual Reports 1899-1901 TUC Library Collections, London Metropolitan University GB1924 HD6079</ref>
:1903:
:1901: [[Kathleen Lyttelton|Mrs Arthur Lyttelton]]<ref name="ReferenceA"/>
:1902: [[Constance Flower|Lady Constance Battersea]]
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:1903: [[Mary Clifford]]<ref name="glick" />
:1905: [[Elizabeth Cadbury]]<ref name="glick" />
:1905: [[Elizabeth Cadbury]]<ref name="glick" />
:1907: Mrs Edwin Gray<ref name="glick" />
:1907: [[Almyra Gray|Mrs Edwin Gray]]<ref name="glick" />
:1909:
:1909:
:1910: [[Laura Ridding]]
:1910: [[Lady Laura Ridding]]<ref name="glick" />
:1911: Mrs Alan Bright<ref name="glick" />
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:1913:
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:1916: [[Maria Ogilvie Gordon]]<ref name="glick" />
:1920: Beatrix Palmer, Countess of Selborne<ref name="glick" />
:1916: [[Maria Gordon|Maria Ogilvie Gordon]]<ref name="glick" />
:1920: [[Maud Palmer, Countess of Selborne]]<ref name="glick" />
:1921: [[Frances Balfour]]<ref name="glick" />
:1921: [[Frances Balfour]]<ref name="glick" />
:1923: Mrs George Morgan<ref name="glick" />
:1923: Mrs George Morgan<ref name="glick" />
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:1928: [[Florence Ada Keynes]]<ref name="glick" />
:1928: [[Florence Ada Keynes]]<ref name="glick" />
:1931: [[Lady Trustram Eve]]<ref name="glick" />
:1931: [[Lady Trustram Eve]]<ref name="glick" />
:1933: Eva Hartree<ref name="glick" />
:1933: [[Eva Hartree]]<ref name="glick" />
:1937: [[Ruth Balfour]]<ref name="glick" />
:1937: Ruth Balfour<ref name="glick" />
:1938: A. F. Johnston<ref name="glick" />
:1938: A. F. Johnston<ref name="glick" />
:1940: E. Wilhelmina Ness<ref name="glick" />
:1940: [[E. Wilhelmina Ness]]<ref name="glick" />
:1941: Home Peel<ref name="glick" />
:1941:
:1943: E. Wilhelmina Ness<ref name="glick" />
:1943: [[E. Wilhelmina Ness]]<ref name="glick" />
:1945:
:1945:
:1957: Eva Isaacs, Marchioness of Reading<ref name="glick" />
:1953: Kathleen Freeman<ref name="glick" />
:1959: Joan Robins<ref name="glick" />
:1955: Mrs Stanley Moffat<ref name="glick" />
:1957: [[Eva Isaacs, Marchioness of Reading]]<ref name="glick" />
:1959: [[Joan Robins]]<ref name="glick" />
:1962: Norah Dean<ref name="glick" />
:1962: Norah Dean<ref name="glick" />
:1964: [[Kathleen Baxter]]<ref name="glick" />
:1964: [[Kathleen Baxter]]<ref name="glick" />
:1966: [[Joan Boulind]]<ref name="glick" />
:1966: [[Joan Boulind]]<ref name="glick" />
:1968:
:1968: [[Guinevere Tilney]]
:1970:
:1972: Margaret Lampard<ref name="glick" />
:1974: Kay Fox<ref name="glick" />
:1976: Helen Waldsax<ref name="glick" />
:1978: Diane Reid<ref name="glick" />
:1978: Diane Reid<ref name="glick" />
:1980: [[Margaret Wingfield]]<ref name="glick" />
:1980: [[Margaret Wingfield]]<ref name="glick" />
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:1986: Evelyn Fairfax Martin<ref name="glick" />
:1986: Evelyn Fairfax Martin<ref name="glick" />
:1988: Rosalind Preston<ref name="glick" />
:1988: Rosalind Preston<ref name="glick" />
:1990: Elizabeth Bavidge<ref name="glick" />
:1990:
:1992: Patience Purdy<ref name="glick" />
:1994: Jean Clark<ref name="glick" />
:1996:
:2008: Sheila Eaton<ref name="president2012">{{cite web |title=NCW News |url=http://www.ncwgb.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/NCW-NEWS-Master-Issue-39-Sept-2012-website.pdf |website=National Council of Women |accessdate=15 June 2018}}</ref>
:2012: Elsie Leadley<ref name="president2012" />
:2014: Gwenda Nicholas<ref name="president2017">{{cite web |title=NCW elects a new president |url=http://ncwgb.org/ncw-elects-new-president/ |website=National Council of Women |accessdate=15 June 2018}}</ref>
:2017: Andrena Telford<ref name="president2017" />


===Other members===
===Other members===
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*[[Nina Boyle]]
*[[Nina Boyle]]
*[[Lucy Cavendish]]
*[[Lucy Cavendish]]
*[[Emily Janes]]
*[[Antonella Kerr, Marchioness of Lothian]]
*[[Antonella Kerr, Marchioness of Lothian]]
*[[Margaret MacDonald (social reformer)|Margaret MacDonald]]
*[[Margaret MacDonald (social reformer)|Margaret MacDonald]]
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*[[Dorothy Peto]]
*[[Dorothy Peto]]
*[[Guinevere Tilney]]
*[[Guinevere Tilney]]
*[[Laura Veale]] — founder and president of [[Harrogate]] branch
*[[Beatrice Webb]]
*[[Beatrice Webb]]
*[[Florence Mildred White]]
*[[Florence Mildred White]]
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==References==
==References==


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{{Reflist}}


==External links==
==External links==
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* [http://www.ncwgb.org National Council of Women of Great Britain]


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[[Category:Organizations established in 1895]]
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Latest revision as of 09:13, 6 May 2024

The National Council of Women exists to co-ordinate the voluntary efforts of women across Great Britain.[1] Founded as the National Union of Women Workers, it said that it would "promote sympathy of thought and purpose among the women of Great Britain and Ireland".[2]

History

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It was founded in 1895. It changed its name to the National Council of Women of Great Britain & Ireland in 1918. In 1928 it changed its name to the National Council of Women of Great Britain.[3]

Its early archives are held in the London Metropolitan University: Trades Union Congress Library Collections.

H. Pearl Adam published Women in Council, the history of the National Council of Women of Great Britain, in 1945.[4]

Notable members

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Presidents

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1895: Louise Creighton[5]
1897: Mrs Alfred Booth
1899:
1900: Mrs Arthur Lyttelton[6]
1901: Mrs Arthur Lyttelton[6]
1902: Lady Constance Battersea
1903: Mary Clifford[5]
1905: Elizabeth Cadbury[5]
1907: Mrs Edwin Gray[5]
1909:
1910: Lady Laura Ridding[5]
1911: Mrs Alan Bright[5]
1913:
1916: Maria Ogilvie Gordon[5]
1920: Maud Palmer, Countess of Selborne[5]
1921: Frances Balfour[5]
1923: Mrs George Morgan[5]
1925: Henrietta Franklin[5]
1928: Florence Ada Keynes[5]
1931: Lady Trustram Eve[5]
1933: Eva Hartree[5]
1937: Ruth Balfour[5]
1938: A. F. Johnston[5]
1940: E. Wilhelmina Ness[5]
1941: Home Peel[5]
1943: E. Wilhelmina Ness[5]
1945:
1953: Kathleen Freeman[5]
1955: Mrs Stanley Moffat[5]
1957: Eva Isaacs, Marchioness of Reading[5]
1959: Joan Robins[5]
1962: Norah Dean[5]
1964: Kathleen Baxter[5]
1966: Joan Boulind[5]
1968: Guinevere Tilney
1970:
1972: Margaret Lampard[5]
1974: Kay Fox[5]
1976: Helen Waldsax[5]
1978: Diane Reid[5]
1980: Margaret Wingfield[5]
1984: Mary Mayne[5]
1986: Evelyn Fairfax Martin[5]
1988: Rosalind Preston[5]
1990: Elizabeth Bavidge[5]
1992: Patience Purdy[5]
1994: Jean Clark[5]
1996:
2008: Sheila Eaton[7]
2012: Elsie Leadley[7]
2014: Gwenda Nicholas[8]
2017: Andrena Telford[8]

Other members

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Eminent members have included:

References

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  1. ^ Serena Kelly, ‘Ridding , Lady Laura Elizabeth (1849–1939)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 22 Nov 2017
  2. ^ Ridding, Laura. "Socities [sic] Which Help Women And Children. No. 1. The National Union Of Woman Workers". chestofbooks.com. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
  3. ^ "National Union of Women Workers of Great Britain and Ireland". Archives Hub. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
  4. ^ Bain, G. S.; Woolven, Gillian B.; Woolven, G. B. (29 March 1979). A Bibliography of Industrial Relations. CUP Archive. p. 103. ISBN 978-0-521-21547-3.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak Glick, Daphne (1995). The National Council of Women of Great Britain: the first one hundred years. National Council of Women of Great Britain. ISBN 978-0900915079.
  6. ^ a b NUWW Annual Reports 1899-1901 TUC Library Collections, London Metropolitan University GB1924 HD6079
  7. ^ a b "NCW News" (PDF). National Council of Women. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
  8. ^ a b "NCW elects a new president". National Council of Women. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
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