Catherine Courtauld Taylor was a social reformer and suffragist. President of Birmingham Women’s Suffrage Society.
Born in Bridgwater to parents who supported women's suffrage. Married Alfred Osler who ran the family firm in Birmingham making the crystal for chandeliers.
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Catherine Courtauld Osler
Born Dublin. Mother of Oscar Wilde. Poet under the pseudonym ‘Speranza’. Supporter of the Irish nationalist movement and advocate of women’s rights. Died 146 (now 87) Oakley Street.
Born in Manchester as Estelle Sylvia, daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst. Â Trained and initially worked as an artist. Worked with George Lansbury in the East End. 1924 Sylvia moved from the East End of...
Activist and community leader. Born in St Catherine, Jamaica, and moved to Britain at the age of nine. She was a founding member of the Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent (OWAAD) in...
Person, Gender Issues, Race Issues, Social Welfare, Caribbean Islands
Born Julia Sullivan in Limehouse, married John Scurr in 1900. Politically active, campaigning for working women, the unemployed, women's suffrage. 1919 elected to Poplar Borough Council and was imp...
School teacher and one of the first paid members of the Women's Social and Political Union. She left the WSPU - as she considered the leadership too autocratic, and helped create the Women's Freed...
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