Annie Coultate
Annie Coultate | |
|---|---|
| Born | c. 1856 Fulford, North Yorkshire, England |
| Died | 1931 Acomb, Yorkshire, England |
| Burial place | St Stephen's Church, Acomb, Yorkshire, England |
| Occupation | Teacher |
| Known for | Suffragette activism |
Annie Coultate (née de Lacy, c. 1856 - 1931) was a teacher and leading suffragist in York, England.[1]
Life
[edit]Coultate was born in Fulford, North Yorkshire, in 1856.[2] She trained as a pupil-teacher and was later employed as assistant head mistress[3] at Fishergate Elementary School in York.[1][4] She married Frank Coultate in 1881 and they had two children.[5]
Activism
[edit]Coultate became involved in campaigning for women's enfranchisement after being inspired by a talk given by Emmeline Pankhurst in York during 1908.[6] She founded the local Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) branch in York during 1910, when she was 55 years old.[5][7] Coultate organised speakers from the Scarborough WSPU branch, such as Adela Pankhurst and Marion Mackenzie, to address the branch in York, and spoke at Scarborough WSPU meetings in return.[8]
Her activism included selling the Votes for Women newspaper from door to door around York,[9] organising the local suffragette boycott of the 1911 census with Violet Key Jones,[3][5][10] and helping Lilian Lenton escape house arrest during her release from prison under the Cat and Mouse Act.[5]
Death
[edit]Coultate died in Acomb, York in 1931 and was buried at St. Stephen's Church, Acomb.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Annie Coultate". Visit York. Retrieved 18 November 2024.
- ^ a b "Annie Coultate". HerStoryYork, York Museums Trust. Retrieved 18 November 2024.
- ^ a b "Suffragettes". York Civic Trust. Retrieved 9 January 2025.
- ^ Cowman, Krista (2007). The Militant Suffragette Movement in York. Borthwick Publications. p. 13. ISBN 978-1-904497-21-9.
- ^ a b c d Rainger, Christopher. "Annie Coultate". Mapping Women's Suffrage 1911. Retrieved 18 November 2024.
- ^ "Trailblazing York". York Festival of Ideas. Retrieved 18 November 2024.
- ^ "How the census has changed and what it can tell us about the past and our lives today". Yorkshire Post. 17 March 2021. Retrieved 18 November 2024.
- ^ Waters, Michael (1 January 2018). "The Campaign for Women's Suffrage in York and the 1911 Census Evasion". Yorkshire Archaeological Journal. 90 (1): 178–194. doi:10.1080/00844276.2018.1465692. ISSN 0084-4276.
- ^ "LETTER: Remembering York's suffragettes". York Press. 30 January 2019. Retrieved 18 November 2024.
- ^ Liddington, Jill (1 January 2014). Vanishing for the vote: Suffrage, citizenship and the battle for the census. Manchester University Press. p. 359. ISBN 978-1-84779-888-6.