The National Council of Women exists to co-ordinate the voluntary efforts of women across Great Britain.[1] Founded as the National Union of Women Workers, it said that it would "promote sympathy of thought and purpose among the women of Great Britain and Ireland".[2]
History
It was founded in 1895. It changed its name to the National Council of Women of Great Britain & Ireland in 1918. In 1928 it changed its name to the National Council of Women of Great Britain.[3]
Its early archives are held in the London Metropolitan University: Trades Union Congress Library Collections.
H. Pearl Adam published Women in Council, the history of the National Council of Women of Great Britain, in 1945.[4]
Notable members
Presidents
- 1895: Louise Creighton[5]
- 1897: Mrs Alfred Booth
- 1899:
- 1900: Mrs Arthur Lyttelton[6]
- 1901: Mrs Arthur Lyttelton[6]
- 1902: Lady Constance Battersea
- 1903: Mary Clifford[5]
- 1905: Elizabeth Cadbury[5]
- 1907: Mrs Edwin Gray[5]
- 1909:
- 1910: Lady Laura Ridding[5]
- 1911: Mrs Alan Bright[5]
- 1913:
- 1916: Maria Ogilvie Gordon[5]
- 1920: Maud Palmer, Countess of Selborne[5]
- 1921: Frances Balfour[5]
- 1923: Mrs George Morgan[5]
- 1925: Henrietta Franklin[5]
- 1928: Florence Ada Keynes[5]
- 1931: Lady Trustram Eve[5]
- 1933: Eva Hartree[5]
- 1937: Ruth Balfour[5]
- 1938: A. F. Johnston[5]
- 1940: E. Wilhelmina Ness[5]
- 1941: Home Peel[5]
- 1943: E. Wilhelmina Ness[5]
- 1945:
- 1953: Kathleen Freeman[5]
- 1955: Mrs Stanley Moffat[5]
- 1957: Eva Isaacs, Marchioness of Reading[5]
- 1959: Joan Robins[5]
- 1962: Norah Dean[5]
- 1964: Kathleen Baxter[5]
- 1966: Joan Boulind[5]
- 1968: Guinevere Tilney
- 1970:
- 1972: Margaret Lampard[5]
- 1974: Kay Fox[5]
- 1976: Helen Waldsax[5]
- 1978: Diane Reid[5]
- 1980: Margaret Wingfield[5]
- 1984: Mary Mayne[5]
- 1986: Evelyn Fairfax Martin[5]
- 1988: Rosalind Preston[5]
- 1990: Elizabeth Bavidge[5]
- 1992: Patience Purdy[5]
- 1994: Jean Clark[5]
- 1996:
- 2008: Sheila Eaton[7]
- 2012: Elsie Leadley[7]
- 2014: Gwenda Nicholas[8]
- 2017: Andrena Telford[8]
Other members
Eminent members have included: