Anna
Gillies Macdonald Munro (October 4, 1881 – September 11, 1962) was an active
campaigner in the women's suffrage movement in the United Kingdom. Queer Places:
(1913) 28 Albert Palace Mansions, Lurline Gardens,
Battersea, London SW
(1962) Venturefair, Padworth, near Reading, Berkshire
Munro House, Park Ave, Thatcham RG18 4LH, UK
Anna
Gillies Macdonald Munro (October 4, 1881 – September 11, 1962) was an active
campaigner in the women's suffrage movement in the United Kingdom.
Anna was born in Glasgow, on 4 October 1881, to Margaret Ann MacVean, and Evan Macdonald Munro, a school master; following her mother's death in 1892 the family moved to Dunfermline.
She became involved with the Wesleyan Methodist Sisters of the People in London working with the poor. She then joined the Women's Social and Political Union and founded a branch in Dunfermline in 1906. She was briefly imprisoned in 1908 for her protesting, and participated in the protests around the 1911 Census, which the suffragettes boycotted.
She married Sidney Ashman in 1913, and though she legally took the surname Munro-Ashman she was still known as Anna Munro in her work, and she continued to be active working for women's rights throughout her life. She was also a socialist and temperance campaigner.
Alison Roberta Noble Neilans died at the young age of fifty-eight on July 17 1942 after twenty-nine years as Secretary of the Association for Social and Moral Hygiene. Among the numerous mourners at her funeral, at Golders Green on July 21 1942, were her feminist friends and colleagues Rachel Crowdy, Nina Boyle, Nancy Astor, Grace Abbott (chairman of AMSH), Miss F. Barry of St. Joan’s International Alliance, Miss K. Courtney of the League of Nations Union, Daisy Solomon of the British Commonwealth League, Miss Anna Munro, Miss Marian Reeves of the Women’s Freedom League and many more from the international arms of organisations such as the Open Door Council and the International Council of Women. Bessie Rischbieth of the Australian Federation of Women Voters represented Australian women.
On 11 September 1962, she died in Padworth, Berkshire.[1]
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