The National Council of Women of Great Britain (NCWGB) exists to co-ordinate the voluntary efforts of women across Great Britain.Serena Kelly, ‘Ridding, Lady Laura Elizabeth (1849–1939)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 22 Nov 2017 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".
History It was founded in 1895 and affiliated to the International Council of Women (ICW) in 1897.
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.
It supported the work of the Equal Pay Campaign Committee 1941-1956.
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.
Notable members Presidents 1895: Louise Creighton 1897: Mrs Alfred Booth 1899: 1900: Mrs Arthur LytteltonNUWW Annual Reports 1899-1901 TUC Library Collections, London Metropolitan University GB1924 HD6079 1901: Mrs Arthur Lyttelton 1902: Lady Constance Battersea 1903: Mary Clifford 1905: Elizabeth Cadbury 1907: Mrs Edwin Gray 1909: 1910: Lady Laura Ridding 1911: Mrs Alan Bright 1913: 1916: Maria Ogilvie Gordon 1920: Maud Palmer, Countess of Selborne 1921: Frances Balfour 1923: Mrs George Morgan 1925: Henrietta Franklin 1928: Florence Ada Keynes 1931: Lady Trustram Eve 1933: Eva Hartree 1937: Ruth Balfour 1938: A. F. Johnston 1940: E. Wilhelmina Ness 1941: Hon Mrs Home Peel 1943: E. Wilhelmina Ness 1945: 1953: Kathleen Freeman 1955: Mrs Stanley Moffat 1957: Eva Isaacs, Marchioness of Reading 1959: Joan Robins 1962: Norah Dean 1964: Kathleen Baxter 1966: Joan Boulind 1968: Guinevere Tilney 1970: 1972: Margaret Lampard 1974: Kay Fox 1976: Helen Waldsax 1978: Diane Reid 1980: Margaret Wingfield 1984: Mary Mayne 1986: Evelyn Fairfax Martin 1988: Rosalind Preston 1990: Elizabeth Bavidge 1992: Patience Purdy 1994: Jean Clark 1996: 2008: Sheila Eaton 2012: Elsie Leadley 2014: Gwenda Nicholas 2017: Andrena Telford
Other members Notable members have included: Henrietta Barnett Nina Boyle Lucy Cavendish Emily Janes Antonella Kerr, Marchioness of Lothian Margaret MacDonald Ray Michie, Baroness Michie of Gallanach Dorothy Peto Guinevere Tilney Laura Veale — founder and president of Harrogate branch Beatrice Webb Florence Mildred White Margaret Wintringham Charis Frankenberg (on health committee, and member of the Salford branch)
References
External links National Council of Women of Great Britain