Anna Lindsay (activist)

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Anna Lindsay
Born
Anna Dunlop

24 June 1845
Edinburgh
Died1 March 1903
Kelvinside, Glasgow
Known forScottish women's rights activist
Spouse(s)Thomas Martin Lindsay
Parent(s)Eliza Esther and Alexander Colquhoun-Stirling-Murray-Dunlop

Anna Lindsay (née Dunlop; 24 June 1845 – 1 March 1903) was a Scottish women's activist. She was to be one of the founders of the Glasgow Association for the Higher Education of Women and her name was said to be synonymous with the women's movement in Scotland. She was the first chair of the Scottish Women's Liberal Federation.

Life[]

Lindsay was born in Edinburgh in 1845 to Eliza Esther and Alexander Colquhoun-Stirling-Murray-Dunlop. She was one of the first students at the University Classes for Women in Edinburgh where she impressed her professors.[1]

Lindsay married the academic Thomas Martin Lindsay in 1872 and moved to live with him in Glasgow.

The Glasgow Association for the Higher Education of Women was started after a suggestion of Mrs Jean Campbell by Professor John Nichol in 1868 to start lectures for women.[2] Anna Lindsay was amongst its founders.[1] Their third children in 1879 was Alexander Lindsay, 1st Baron Lindsay of Birker, who became a Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Glasgow, Master of Balliol College, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford.[3][4]

In 1889 she used her membership of the Liberal Party to form a local women's association that was known as the Glasgow and West of Scotland Women's Liberal Association. She was just the vice-chair but when this organisation merged with others to create the Scottish Women's Liberal Federation (SWLF) in 1891 she became the chair. It was only her health that prevented her from continuing in that role after 1899.[1]

She was latterly (1901-3) a member of the , independent but affiliated to the British Women's Temperance Association as well as joining the Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women's Suffrage.[5]

Lindsay died in 1903 in Kelvinside in Glasgow.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d K. D. Reynolds, ‘Lindsay , Anna (1845–1903)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 14 Oct 2017
  2. ^ Myers, Christine D. (2001-12-01). "The Glasgow Association for the Higher Education of Women, 1878 to 1883". Historian. 63 (2): 357–371. doi:10.1111/j.1540-6563.2001.tb01470.x. ISSN 1540-6563. S2CID 144798761.
  3. ^ Lindsay, Alexander Dunlop, 1st Baron Lindsay of Birker, in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography at oxforddnb.com(subscription site), accessed 20 June 2013
  4. ^ Reynolds, Paul (6 Sep 1978). "Lindsay papers Ref code: GB 172 LIN" (PDF). Keele University. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
  5. ^ Smitley, Megan K. (2002). 'Woman's mission': the temperance and women's suffrage movements in Scotland, c.1870-1914. Glasgow: University of Glasgow.
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