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Agnes Brown (suffragist)

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set off from Edinburgh in 1912 to walk to London. They had white scarves and green hats and as they travelled they gathered signatures for a petition for women's rights. The hikers had to walk fifteen miles and attend a meeting each day and in this way they took five weeks to get to London. They
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and they were joined by others along the way. On one day near Berwick they walked over 30 miles before being welcomed by the local member of parliament. Finally they got to London on 16 November where their horse and cart was sent back to Scotland. They went by tube to
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in 1943. The small (and vandalised) grave lies in one of the central sections and is highly obscured by larger graves in front. She was noted in the Scottish Saltire Society who published her obituary as an Outstanding Women of Scotland Community in 2014–15.
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With a father who had been a de facto political prisoner she supported the idea that men could be members of the Women's Freedom League. In 1913 a group of professional men failed to get a meeting with
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suffragist and writer. She was one of the "Brown Women" who walked from Edinburgh to London in 1912. An early woman cyclist in Scotland. She repeated the walk but this time from
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as they assisted Scottish agriculture but in time they were cut out of the organisation by the Scottish board of agriculture. In 1918 she was one of the founding members of the
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but he trained his daughters, Agnes and Jessie, well and refused to submit to laws that he objected to. He wrote a book about his experiences.
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was a supporter of the “Pankhursts,”. She organised walks in America that were similar to the "Brown Women" walks. One of Jones
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which was one of many WCAs that were formed across the country to educate new women voters. Other members were
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in 1866 to William ("Durie") Brown (1858–1921) and his wife Jessie Wishart Henderson. The family lived at 125
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Brown wrote articles, plays and stories; a number of the latter, such as "The Stockin'" were dramatised by
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Women, Sport, Society: Further Reflections, Reaffirming Mary Wollstonecraft
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It was said that she was the first women to be seen cycling in Scotland.
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which was a suffrage organisation created in 1907 in reply to the
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Brown died on 1 December 1943 and was buried with her parents in
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In 1917 she became an area organiser at the first meeting of the
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Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women's Suffrage
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to discuss extending votes to women. That group formed the
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The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866-1928
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Roberta J Park; Patricia Vertinsky (13 September 2013).
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A Guid Cause: The Women's Suffrage Movement in Scotland
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Eleanor Gordon, ‘Brown, Agnes Henderson (1866–1943)’,
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Veneration of the grave of Agnes Brown, Dean Cemetery
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Edinburgh
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Edinburgh
Scottish
John O Groats
Scottish Women's Rural Institute

Edinburgh
Princes Street
Edinburgh Castle
Calton Gaol
Women's Freedom League
Pankhursts
Florence Gertrude de Fonblanque
Sarah Benett
A6
Trafalgar Square
Rosalie Gardiner Jones
Suffrage Hikes
Albany
Asquith
Northern Men's Federation for Women's Suffrage
Scottish Women's Rural Institutes
Sarah Siddons
Lillias Tait Mitchell
Agnes Syme Macdonald
Alexi Buttar Jack
Elizabeth Finlayson Gauld
Weekly Scotsman

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