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List Of New Zealand Suffragists
This is a List of New Zealand suffragists who were born in New Zealand or whose lives and works are closely associated with that country. A * Georgina Shorland Abernethy (1859–1906), president of the Gore Women's Franchise League * Lily May Kirk Atkinson (1866–1921) of Wellington, president of Women's Christian Temperance Union of New Zealand (WCTU NZ) 1901–1905 *Ruth Atkinson (1861–1927), suffragist and temperance activist in Nelson B * Ann Parkes Brame (1836–1906) of Auckland, charter president in February 1885 of the Auckland chapter of the Women's Christian Temperance Union of New Zealand (WCTU NZ). * Eliza Annie Palmer Brown (1847–1923) of Invercargill, charter president in 1884 of New Zealand's first Woman's Christian Temperance Union club - it was not officially connected to any other organisation at that time. * Margaret Carson Bullock, also known as Tua-o-rangi, (1845–1903), co-founder of the Wanganui Women's Franchise League and later the Women's Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island country by area, covering . New Zealand is about east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and south of the islands of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga. The country's varied topography and sharp mountain peaks, including the Southern Alps, owe much to tectonic uplift and volcanic eruptions. New Zealand's capital city is Wellington, and its most populous city is Auckland. The islands of New Zealand were the last large habitable land to be settled by humans. Between about 1280 and 1350, Polynesians began to settle in the islands and then developed a distinctive Māori culture. In 1642, the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman became the first European to sight and record New Zealand. In 1840, representatives of the United Kingdom and Māori chiefs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Caradus
Elizabeth Caradus ( Russell; 26 April 1832 – 5 November 1912) was a New Zealand suffragist, temperance and welfare worker. Early life She was born in Falkirk, Stirlingshire, Scotland on 26 April 1832 to Elizabeth Adam and David Russell, a carpenter. The family emigrated to Auckland, New Zealand in 1842 on the ''Jane Gifford.'' She married James Caradus (born 1823 in Ayrshire, Scotland) James arrived at the same time on the '' Duchess of Argyle''. James and Elizabeth were married on 10 October 1848 (the sixth anniversary of their arrival in Auckland), when he was 25 and she only 16 and they established a home in Robinson St in the Village of Parnell. James worked as a rope-maker in Mechanics Bay. They had 15 children, of whom seven died in infancy, as was not uncommon in those days. James became an expert rope-maker and in 1850 started his own ropewalk in Hobson Street, making a wide variety of twines and ropes from dressed New Zealand flax. He exhibited several specime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith Searle Grossmann
Edith Howitt Searle Grossmann (née Searle, 8 September 1863 – 27 February 1931) was a New Zealand teacher, novelist, journalist and feminist. Early life Grossmann was born in Beechworth, Victoria, Australia on 8 September 1863, to Mary Ann Beeby and George Smales Searle. She was the fourth of their five children. Grossmann's parents were acquaintances of the parents of Alfred William Howitt, an explorer who rescued the sole survivor of Robert O'Hara Burke's ill-fated expedition of 1861. As Grossmann was born almost exactly two years after this rescue, they gave their daughter the middle name "Howitt". Her father was initially a wine merchant in Australia, before becoming a newspaper editor. The family moved to Melbourne and then, in 1878, to Invercargill, where Searle became editor of ''The Southland Times'' newspaper. Education In Invercargill, Grossmann attended Invercargill Grammar School for a year, before being sent to Christchurch Girls' High School. The principal, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Fulton
Catherine Henrietta Elliot Fulton (née Valpy, 19 December 1829 – 6 May 1919) was a New Zealand diarist, community leader, philanthropist, social reformer and suffragist. She was a founding member of the Dunedin chapter of Women's Christian Temperance Union of New Zealand (WCTU NZ) in 1885 and national president of the WCTU NZ from 1889 to 1892. Early life Fulton was one of six children born to William Henry Valpy and Caroline Valpy (née Jeffreys). She was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire or in Reading, Berkshire, England on 19 December 1829. She was educated in England and arrived in New Zealand on the ''Ajax'' in January 1849. Public life Fulton married James Fulton in 1852 and moved to his farm "Ravenscliffe" on the Taieri Plains, Otago. Together they had eight children, several of whom became notable in their own right (most famously the engineers Arthur and James Edward Fulton). Fulton was the national President of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Edger
Kate Milligan Evans (née Edger, 6 January 1857 – 6 May 1935) was the first woman in New Zealand to gain a university degree, and possibly the second in the British Empire to do so. Early life Edger was born in 1857 at Abingdon, Berkshire, England. Her father was the Rev. Samuel Edger, a Christian minister. Her family emigrated from England to New Zealand in 1862. They lived in Albertland and then in Auckland. Education Edger and her sisters received much of their early education from their father who was a university graduate. As there was no higher education for girls at the time, but she showed academic promise, she was placed in the top class of the Auckland College and Grammar School. When Edger applied to the senate of the University of New Zealand for permission to sit for a university scholarship she did not state her gender and her application was successful. She was the only female in classes at Auckland College and Grammar School, which was affiliated to the Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Hull Don
Rachel Don ( Hull; 23 July 1866 – 4 September 1941) was an accredited Methodist local preacher who became a local and national leader in the Women's Christian Temperance Union New Zealand (WCTU NZ), serving as president from 1914 to 1926. Under her leadership, the WCTU NZ focused on white slavery, promoting national prohibition, and expanding women's career opportunities, especially in the New Zealand Police Force and judicial system. She represented New Zealand at a world-wide temperance convention in London in 1920, and at the U.S. Woman's Christian Temperance Union Jubilee in 1924. She served in many other local charitable organisations, and after visiting India, became a fervent leader of the Dominion Stocking League to send refurbished clothing for impoverished children and women to Christian mission stations in India. Early life Rachel Hull Don was born at Hokitika, New Zealand, on 23 July 1866. She was the daughter of Mary Ann Walters and James Washington Hull. Not much ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dunedin
Dunedin ( ; mi, Ōtepoti) is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand (after Christchurch), and the principal city of the Otago region. Its name comes from , the Scottish Gaelic name for Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. The city has a rich Scottish, Chinese and Māori heritage. With an estimated population of as of , Dunedin is both New Zealand's seventh-most populous metro and urban area. For historic, cultural and geographic reasons the city has long been considered one of New Zealand's four main centres. The urban area of Dunedin lies on the central-eastern coast of Otago, surrounding the head of Otago Harbour, and the harbour and hills around Dunedin are the remnants of an extinct volcano. The city suburbs extend out into the surrounding valleys and hills, onto the isthmus of the Otago Peninsula, and along the shores of the Otago Harbour and the Pacific Ocean. Archaeological evidence points to lengthy occupation of the area by Māori prior to the ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Levin, New Zealand
Levin (; mi, Taitoko) is the largest town and seat of the Horowhenua District, in the Manawatū-Whanganui region of New Zealand's North Island. It is located east of Lake Horowhenua, around 95 km north of Wellington and 50 km southwest of Palmerston North. The town has a population of making it the 30th largest urban area in New Zealand, and third largest in Manawatū-Whanganui behind Palmerston North and Whanganui. Levin is a service centre for the surrounding rural area, and a centre for light manufacturing. To the west of the main town lies Lake Horowhenua, which covers some 3.9 sq/km. It is currently undergoing regeneration. History and culture 19th century The area now occupied by Levin was connected to both Wellington and Palmerston North by railway in 1886. The area was surveyed in 1888, and European settlement of began following the sale of suburban and rural sections, which commenced on 19 March 1889. The town was named after William Hort Levin, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Learmonth White Dalrymple
Learmonth White Dalrymple (c.1827–26 August 1906) was a New Zealand educationalist who campaigned for girls' secondary education in Dunedin and for women to be admitted to the University of Otago. This was the first Australasian university to agree to this and the school is said to be the first public high school for girls in the Southern hemisphere. Early life She was born in Coupar Angus, Angus, Scotland about 1827, the eldest of nine children. Her unusual name most likely comes from the Learmonth family, which married into the Dalrymple family. However, her name was registered as Larmonth at baptism on 21 July 1827. She went to school at Madras College in St Andrews. She later considered her schooling inadequate, particularly lacking in mathematical training, which her father considered an unsuitable subject for women. Her mother Janet (née Taylor) died on 23 February 1840, leaving eight surviving children. Her father William Dalrymple, an ironmonger and trader in minerals, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amey Daldy
Amey Daldy ( Hamerton, 1829 – 17 August 1920) was an English-born New Zealand feminist and suffragist. She was an important leader in the movement for women's suffrage in New Zealand, but later resigned as superintendent of the Auckland W.C.T.U. so that the League would not be associated with her other cause, the temperance movement.Margaret Lovell-SmithThe Woman question: writings by the women who won the vote 1992– Page 27 Amey Daldy later resigned as franchise superintendent of the Auckland W.C.T.U., in order to ensure the League would not be associated with the temperance cause (cited in Crimshaw, p.58)." Early life Born in Yarwell, Northhamptonshire, Daldy sailed to New Zealand with her brother John on the ''Caduceus'', arriving in Auckland on 11 October 1860. In 1865, she married William Henry Smith, a shoemaker, whilst running a 'ladies seminary' on Karangahape Road in Auckland. William Smith died in 1879 at the age of 62, and within a year Amey Daldy married Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fanny Cole
Fanny Buttery Cole ( Holder; 20 June 1860 – 25 May 1913) was a prominent temperance leader and women's rights advocate in New Zealand. Cole was a founding member then president of the Christchurch chapter of the Women's Christian Temperance Union New Zealand (WCTU NZ) and national WCTU NZ superintendent of the Press from 1897 through 1903. In 1906 Cole was elected national president of the WCTU NZ, a position she held until her untimely death shortly before her fifty-third birthday. Early life Fanny B. Holder was born at St. George's, Shropshire on 20 June 1860, the sixth of eight children of Fanny Buttery (1822–1883) and Charles Holder (1821–1895). Buttery was a surname of Huguenot origin and pronounced ''Beautrais''. According to the England Census, Fanny and her siblings grew up in Wrockwardine Wood where her father worked as a bootmaker and served as the local Methodist preacher. Some of the family immigrated to New Zealand in 1880; and the four sisters lived near thei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Ann Colclough
Mary Ann Colclough ( Barnes; 20 February 1836–7 March 1885) was a New Zealand feminist and social reformer. She was born in London, England on 20 February 1836. She contributed to various colonial newspapers under the pseudonym Polly Plum. Early life Mary Ann Colclough was born in London in 1836, daughter of Susan and John Thomas Barnes, builder. She was trained as a teacher and came to New Zealand in 1859, settling in Auckland. On 9 May 1861, at Onehunga, she married Thomas Caesar Colclough (died July 1867), formerly of Galleenstown Castle, County Dublin. There were two children: a daughter Mary Louise (1862–1953) and a son William Caesar Sarsfield (1864-1926). Activism Although her work has been overlooked and forgotten, Mary Ann Colclough was one of the earliest, and certainly among the most talented, of feminist leaders in this country. During the late sixties and early seventies and under the pseudonym of “Polly Plum”, she came to the fore as a contributor to vari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
