National Council of Women of Great Britain explained

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

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

Presidents

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

1905: Elizabeth Cadbury

1907: Mrs Edwin Gray

1909:

1910: Lady Laura Ridding

1911: Mrs Alan Bright

1913:

1916: Maria Ogilvie Gordon

1920: Maud Palmer, Countess of Selborne

1921: Frances Balfour

1923: Mrs George Morgan

1925: Henrietta Franklin

1928: Florence Ada Keynes

1931: Lady Trustram Eve

1933: Eva Hartree

1937: Ruth Balfour

1938: A. F. Johnston

1940: E. Wilhelmina Ness

1941: Home Peel

1943: E. Wilhelmina Ness

1945:

1953: Kathleen Freeman

1955: Mrs Stanley Moffat

1957: Eva Isaacs, Marchioness of Reading

1959: Joan Robins

1962: Norah Dean

1964: Kathleen Baxter

1966: Joan Boulind

1968: Guinevere Tilney

1970:

1972: Margaret Lampard

1974: Kay Fox

1976: Helen Waldsax

1978: Diane Reid

1980: Margaret Wingfield

1984: Mary Mayne

1986: Evelyn Fairfax Martin

1988: Rosalind Preston

1990: Elizabeth Bavidge

1992: Patience Purdy

1994: Jean Clark

1996:

2008: Sheila Eaton^[7]

2012: Elsie Leadley

2014: Gwenda Nicholas^[8]

2017: Andrena Telford

Other members

Eminent members have included:

• Henrietta Barnett
• Nina Boyle
• Lucy Cavendish
• Emily Janes
• Antonella Kerr, Marchioness of Lothian
• Margaret MacDonald
• Ray Michie, Baroness Michie of Gallanach
• Dorothy Peto
• Guinevere Tilney
• Laura Veale — founder and president of Harrogate branch
• Beatrice Webb
• Florence Mildred White
• Margaret Wintringham

External links

• National Council of Women of Great Britain

Notes and References

1. Serena Kelly, ‘Ridding, Lady Laura Elizabeth (1849–1939)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 22 Nov 2017
2. Web site: Ridding . Laura . Which Help Women And Children. No. 1. The National Union Of Woman Workers . chestofbooks.com . 24 September 2020.
3. Web site: National Union of Women Workers of Great Britain and Ireland. Archives Hub. 6 September 2015.
4. Book: Bain . G. S. . A Bibliography of Industrial Relations . Woolven . Gillian B. . Woolven . G. B. . 1979-03-29 . CUP Archive . 978-0-521-21547-3 . 103 . en.
5. Book: Glick. Daphne. The National Council of Women of Great Britain: the first one hundred years. 1995. National Council of Women of Great Britain. 978-0900915079.
6. NUWW Annual Reports 1899-1901 TUC Library Collections, London Metropolitan University GB1924 HD6079
7. Web site: NCW News . National Council of Women . 15 June 2018.
8. Web site: NCW elects a new president . National Council of Women . 15 June 2018.