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Woman's Christian Temperance Union Of Victoria
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Victoria (WCTU), now trading under the name WCTU Drug-Free Lifestyles, is a branch of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, based in the State of Victoria, in Australia. It was founded before the Federation of Australia, in the Colony of Victoria, in 1887, when the 12 existing local branches in the colony, the first of which was established in 1885, merged to form a colonial union. Its purpose was primarily promoting total abstinence of alcohol, and members sign a pledge of abstinence. The WCTU adopted the original motto of the international organisation ''For God and Home and Native Land'', and the symbol of the white ribboned bow. Background Formation The Temperance movement in the Colony of Victoria picked up in the early 19th century, after the liquor licencing laws that had been inherited from the Colony of NSW, were amended to allow for an increase in liquor sales. Hotel licenses were allowed time extensions, and the licence ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Kirk
Maria (Marie) Elizabeth Kirk born Maria Elizabeth Sutton (9 December 1855 – 14 January 1928) was a British-born Australian temperance advocate and social reformer. She was involved in women's rights including organising a "Monster Petition" for women's suffrage in 1891. She was founder and inaugural organising secretary of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Victoria. Life Kirk is thought to have been born in London in 1855. Her Quaker parents were Maria Elizabeth and Alfred Peter Sutton. Her father worked in retail and so did her husband (1878). In time her husband, Frank Kirk, made boots and she was involved in helping in missions in London. In 1886 she went to Toronto as the representative of the British Women's Temperance Association in the formation of the International Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). She emigrated to Australia in 1886 and in 1887 she and Rev. Philip Moses were key figures in the creation of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Vict ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monster Petition
The Victorian Women's Suffrage Petition, also known as the Monster Petition, was collected, collated, and presented to the Victorian Parliament in 1891 by groups seeking women's suffrage in Victoria. It was one of the largest known petitions from the 19th century, and it demanded the right to vote for women in the Colony of Victoria, Australia. It contains nearly 30,000 Victorian women's signatures. It was gathered in a six month period 1891 by women's suffrage activists and was organised by a coalition of groups such as the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Victoria (WCTU), the Victorian Temperance Alliance, the Victorian Women's Suffrage Society, and the Australian Women's Suffrage Society. While the petition failed to win the suffrage bill that it supported in 1891, the petition had a lasting impact because it proved that a large proportion of women in Victoria wanted the vote, rather than just a fringe group of women as women's suffrage critics suggested. The petition i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grace Vale
Grace Vale (14 May 1860 – 22 December 1933) was an Australian medical doctor and suffragist who devoted much of her career to improvement of health services for women and children in Victoria and New South Wales in the late 1800s and early 1900s, especially in rural areas. In 1887, she was one of the seven women who convinced Melbourne University to lift their ban on women studying medicine, so they could enrol. She became one of the first women to graduate as a medical doctor in Australia. Early life and education Grace Vale was born in the then British colony of Victoria, in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond, on 14 May 1860. She was the first of six daughters of bookseller and later prominent Victorian politician, William Mountford Kinsey Vale (1833–1895) and his wife Rachel Lennox. Her sister, May Vale, was an Australian painter. Grace Vale received part of her education in England, where her parents had married the year before her birth, but was mostly educated in Victori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Age
''The Age'' is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854. Owned and published by Nine Entertainment, ''The Age'' primarily serves Victoria (Australia), Victoria, but copies also sell in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and southern New South Wales. It is delivered both in print and digital formats. The newspaper shares some articles with its sister paper ''The Sydney Morning Herald''. ''The Age'' is considered a newspaper of record for Australia, and has variously been known for its investigative reporting, with its journalists having won dozens of Walkley Awards, Australia's most prestigious journalism prize. , ''The Age'' had a monthly readership of 5.4 million. , this had fallen to 4.55 million. History Foundation ''The Age'' was founded by three Melbourne businessmen: brothers John and Henry Cooke (who had arrived from New Zealand in the 1840s) and Walter Powell. The first editi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoinette Kensel Thurgood
Antoinette Kensel Thurgood (born Antoinette Kensel, – March 31, 1915) was an American philanthropist, Christian women's community organizer, and newspaper editor. She was the founder of the Women's Conference of the Churches of Christ in Victoria, Australia. Biography Early life Born in Lexington, Kentucky, Thurgood was the daughter of Christian Kensel and Mary Ann (Butt) Kensel. She was educated at Sayre Institute (now Sayre School) in Lexington. She married an Australian pastor, Charles Lloyd Thurgood, at Lexington on June 13, 1882. Career Thurgood and her husband travelled from Kentucky to Australia in 1882, via Europe, Egypt, and Ceylon. Charles had accepted a position of pastor of Ballarat and Geelong Churches of Christ. Thurgood was the organizer of the first Christian Endeavor Society in Australasia at Geelong, Victoria, February 1883. She was the founder of the Women's Conference of the Churches of Christ, also in Victoria. She was also the honorary president of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Anne Merson
Mary Anne Merson (née Row; 1828 – 1904) was an English-born temperance movement advocate, a pioneer colonialist who arrived in Melbourne in 1855. She was an executive member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Victoria and the author of a temperance tale published in 1870. Merson has been nominated for inclusion in the Australian Dictionary of Biography Colonial Women project and her book is included in the ''Colonial Australian Popular Fiction: A Digital Archive.'' Early life and voyage to Australia Mary Anne Merson was the youngest of six children, four boys and two girls, though only Mary Anne and her sister lived to maturity. In 1855, Merson travelled from Liverpool, England to Melbourne, Australia aboard the ship '' Champion of the Seas''. It was only the second voyage of the ship, known as a clipper, a mid-19th-century merchant sailing vessel, designed for speed. Under the command of Captain John McKirby, the voyage took eighty-three days. The ship arrived in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecilia Downing
Cecilia Downing ( Hopkins; 1858–1952) was an Australian temperance and women's rights activist and leader. She was one of Australia's first child-probation officers. A devout Baptist, she was an influential leader in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Australasia, the Housewives' Association of Victoria, the Federated Association of Australian Housewives, and the Traveller's Aid Society. She was appointed a member of the Order of the British Empire in 1950. Early life Cecilia Hopkins was born on 13 January 1858 in Islington, London, England. Not long after her birth, her parents, Issac and Mary Hopkins, emigrated to Melbourne, Australia, where Issac Hopkins found work as a plasterer. The family lived in Williamstown, Victoria. Cecilia Hopkins attended the Training Institution in Carlton, and earned a teaching certificate for primary education. In 1885, she married John Downing, a Baptist pastor who had studied with Charles Spurgeon, a well-known British preacher. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annette Bear-Crawford
Annette Ellen Bear-Crawford (born Annette Ellen Bear, 23 February 1853 – 7 June 1899) was an Australian women's suffragist and social reformer in Victoria (Australia), Victoria. She was instrumental in uniting and training the women's suffrage organisations in the Colony of Victoria to coordinate a sustained campaign for women to gain the vote. She established a shilling fund to found the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne. She was a social reformer, and successfully agitated to have the age of consent increased, and have women involved in factory inspecting, and policing to ensure the safety of women. Bear-Crawford died unexpectedly from pneumonia, aged 46, while on a trip to England to attend the Women's International Conference. She did not live to see women gain the vote in Victoria or Australia. She also died a week before the opening of the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne. In 2007, she was inducted into the Victorian Honour roll of women. Early life Bear-Crawford was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bessie Lee Cowie
Bessie Lee Cowie (born Bessie Vickery, 10 June 1860 – 18 April 1950), was an Australian temperance campaigner, social reformer, lecturer and writer, who later lived and worked in New Zealand. Biography Lee Cowie was born in Daylesford, Victoria, Australia, as Bessie Vickery on 10 June 1860. The community in which she was reared – an isolated gold-mining settlement, on the summit of the mountain range which divides the State of Victoria— offered little in the way of school advantage, so Lee Cowie was, for the most part, self-educated. She developed her intellectual life rapidly, becoming known in her childhood as a writer of stories and verses that were published in periodicals. At the age of 19, Lee Cowie married Harrison Lee, of Fitzroy, Victoria, and with him made her home in Melbourne. In 1883, she became a pledged total abstainer and an enthusiastic worker in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Victoria (WCTU). In this service, she developed a talent for lectur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen Mary Of The United Kingdom
Mary of Teck (Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes; 26 May 186724 March 1953) was Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Empress of India, from 6 May 1910 until 20 January 1936 as the wife of King-Emperor George V. Born and raised in London, Mary was the daughter of Francis, Duke of Teck, a German nobleman, and Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, a granddaughter of King George III. She was informally known as "May", after the month of her birth. At the age of 24, she was betrothed to her second cousin once removed Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, who was second in line to the throne. Six weeks after the announcement of the engagement, he died unexpectedly during a pandemic. The following year, she became engaged to Albert Victor's only surviving brother, George, who subsequently became king. Before her husband's accession, she was successively Duchess of York, Duchess of Cornwall, and Princess of Wales. As q ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George V
George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until Death and state funeral of George V, his death in 1936. George was born during the reign of his paternal grandmother, Queen Victoria, as the second son of the Prince and Princess of Wales (later King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra). He was third in the line of succession to the British throne behind his father and his elder brother, Prince Albert Victor. From 1877 to 1892, George served in the Royal Navy, until his elder brother's unexpected death in January 1892 put him directly in line for the throne. The next year Wedding of Prince George and Princess Victoria Mary, George married his brother's former fiancée, Princess Victoria Mary of Teck, and they had six children. When Death of Queen Victoria, Queen Victoria died in 1901, George's father ascended the throne as Edward VII, and George was created ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flos Greig
Grata Flos Matilda Greig (7 November 1880 – 31 December 1958), Scottish-born Australian lawyer, was the first woman to be admitted to practise as a barrister and solicitor in Australia. Early life and education Grata Flos Matilda Greig (known as Flos) was born in Broughty Ferry, Scotland on 7 November 1880, one of eight children of textile merchant and higher education advocate Robert Greig, and his wife Jane Stocks (née Macfarlane) (1848-1902). She had five sisters and three brothers - Jane Stocks (1872-1939), Janet Lindsay (1874-1950), Clara Puella (1877-1957), James Arthur (1882-1935), Ernest Howard (1884-1972), Hector Maximus (1887-1979) and Stella Fida (1889-1913). Flos Greig attended school in Dundee, Scotland, before the family moved to Melbourne, Victoria, Australia landing on 20 April 1889, after sailing on the ''Parramatta''. From 1894 she attended the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne, but decided to leave school after 1896 and enrolled in an arts/la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
