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Elizabeth Rennick
Elizabeth Harrison Rennick (born Elizabeth Harrison Skrymsher, c.1833 – 12 August 1923), was a British born, Australian suffragist who lived in Melbourne, Victoria. She was known as one of the pioneer suffragists in the Colony of Victoria, having hosted the 1884 meeting during which the Victorian Women's Suffrage Society was formed. She was elected its the first secretary and treasurer. She was forced to resign within the first year due to making controversial statements in a press interview. Biography Early life Rennick was born Elizabeth Harrison Skrymsher, in approximately 1833, in England. She married Charles Rennick in 1857. They had five children, and moved to Australia in 1879. Her daughter Marion was an exhibiting member of the Victorian Artists Society. Marion's second husband was James Barrett. Involvement in the women's suffrage movement While still living in England, Rennick was involved with the women's suffrage movement for many years. She was a member of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
England
England is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers about 62%, and List of islands of England, more than 100 smaller adjacent islands. It shares Anglo-Scottish border, a land border with Scotland to the north and England–Wales border, another land border with Wales to the west, and is otherwise surrounded by the North Sea to the east, the English Channel to the south, the Celtic Sea to the south-west, and the Irish Sea to the west. Continental Europe lies to the south-east, and Ireland to the west. At the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 census, the population was 56,490,048. London is both List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, the largest city and the Capital city, capital. The area now called England was first inhabited by modern humans during the Upper Paleolithic. It takes its name from the Angles (tribe), Angles, a Germanic peoples, Germanic tribe who settled du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henrietta Dugdale
Henrietta Augusta Dugdale ( Worrell; 14 May 1827 – 17 June 1918) was a pioneer Australian who initiated the first women's suffrage society in Australia. Non-conformist, provocative and quick-witted, her campaigning resulted in breakthroughs for women's rights in Australia. Early life and education Henrietta Augusta Worrell was born at St Pancras London on 14 May 1827, the second surviving daughter of John Worrell and Henrietta Ann (''née'' Austin). Her claim of a first marriage at 14 does not fit with her official marriage in 1848 to a merchant navy officer J. A. Davies, with whom she came to Australia in 1852. After Davies' death she married ship's captain William Dugdale in Melbourne in March 1853. They settled at Queenscliff where sons Einnim, Carl and Austin were born. Dugdale was a vegetarian. After separating from William Dugdale in the late 1860s, she moved to the Melbourne suburb of Camberwell where she remained until a few years before her death on 17 June 1918 at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1923 Deaths
In Greece, this year contained only 352 days as 13 days was skipped to achieve the calendrical switch from Julian to Gregorian Calendar. It happened there that Wednesday, 15 February ''(Julian Calendar)'' was followed by Thursday, 1 March ''(Gregorian Calendar).'' Events January–February * January 9, January 5 – Lithuania begins the Klaipėda Revolt to annex the Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory). * January 11 – Despite strong British protests, troops from France and Belgium Occupation of the Ruhr, occupy the Ruhr area, to force Germany to make reparation payments. * January 17 (or 9) – First flight of the first rotorcraft, Juan de la Cierva's Cierva C.4 autogyro, in Spain. (It is first demonstrated to the military on January 31.) * February 5 – Australian cricketer Bill Ponsford makes 429 runs to break the world record for the highest first-class cricket score for the first time in his third match at this level, at Melbourne Cricket Ground, giving the Victor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1833 Births
Events January–March * January 3 – The United Kingdom reasserts British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean. * February 6 (January 25 on the Greek calendar) – Prince Otto Friedrich Ludwig of Bavaria arrives at the port of Nafplio to assume the title King Othon the First of Greece * February 16 – The United States Supreme Court hands down its landmark decision of Barron v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore. April–June * April 1 – General Antonio López de Santa Anna is elected President of Mexico by the legislatures of 16 of the 18 Mexican states. During his frequent absences from office to fight on the battlefield, Santa Anna turns the duties of government over to his vice president, Valentín Gómez Farías. * April 18 – Over 300 delegates from England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland travel to the office of the Prime Minister, the Earl Grey, to call for the immediate abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire. * May 6 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorian Women's Suffrage 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 is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
