Sylvia Winthrope Murray (19 August 1875 – 17 January 1955)
was a suffragette, the sister of suffragette
Eunice Guthrie Murray.
Life
Murray was born in
Cardross
Cardross (Scottish Gaelic: ''Càrdainn Ros'') is a large village with a population of 2,194 (2011) in Scotland, on the north side of the Firth of Clyde, situated halfway between Dumbarton and Helensburgh. Cardross is in the historic geographical ...
, one of four children of suffragist
Frances and
David Murray who was a solicitor. She studied for a BA at
Girton College, spent some time as a missionary, and worked in her father's law firm.
She was a friend of
Chrystal MacMillan with whom she corresponded, a member of the
Women's Freedom League
The Women's Freedom League was an organisation in the United Kingdom which campaigned for women's suffrage and sexual equality
Gender equality, also known as sexual equality or equality of the sexes, is the state of equal ease of access ...
with her mother
Frances and her sister Eunice, and a member of the
National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies.
She was the author of the 1933 book ''David Murray: A Bibliographical Memoir'' (published by Bennett & Thomson), based on a paper which she presented in 1932 to the Glasgow Bibliographical Society
about her father's library, which was donated after his death to the
University of Glasgow
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See also
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Eunice Murray
Eunice Guthrie Murray (21 January 1878 – 26 March 1960) was a Scottish suffrage campaigner and author. She was the only Scottish woman in the first election open to women in 1918.
Life
Murray was born in Cardross to American born abolitioni ...
- her sister
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Francis Murray - her mother
References
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Scottish suffragists
1875 births
1955 deaths