Mary Sheepshanks

Dates: 1872-1960

Lived at: 89 Erskine Hill in the 1920s

Suffrage organisation(s):

• Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU),
• National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS),
• International Women's Suffrage Alliance (IWSA)

Key roles:

• Vice-President of Morley College,
• Secretary of the IWSA,
• Editor of Ius Suffragii (The Law of Suffrage – the journal of the IWSA)

1911 Census:

• Complied

Militant Activities:

• Was initially a member of the WSPU but later campaigned for the more moderate NUWSS due to her pacifism.
• She admired the bravery of more militant suffragettes but disagreed with their violent actions.

Other achievements:

• Campaigner for peace and the victims of war,
• Welcomed refugees from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to her home.

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