Emma Maitland

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Emma Knox Maitland
Born
Emma Knox Rees

17 May 1844
Tenby
Died13 June 1923 (1923-06-14) (aged 79)
Hampstead
NationalityUnited Kingdom
Childrensix

Emma Knox Maitland (17 May 1844 – 13 June 1923) was a United Kingdom suffragist and educationist.

Life[]

Maitland was born in Tenby in 1844. Her father was a JP but he died when she was young. She had six children with Frederick Maitland whom she married in 1862. He was a clerk and she took some interest in the emerging ambition for women to vote in 1866. It was said that she was not able to take a full interest in public life until her children were grown. However she applied her Liberal Party interests when she campaigned for Elizabeth Garrett Anderson to be a member of the local school board, unsuccessfully, in 1870.[1]

She became involved with school boards and she stood herself unsuccessfully in 1888. She was part of second generation of women to get involved in school boards and she was a contemporary of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Annie Besant and Emily Davies.[2]

Maitland was said to be a key member of the Women's Local Government Society which had been renamed in 1893. The aim of this society was to get women elected to local government.[2] In 1894 she was elected to the London School Board to represent Chelsea and she took a special interest in the education offered to children who were blind or deaf.[1] She travelled abroad to find out the latest ideas for teaching the deaf and dumb.[3] She became responsible for nine schools and she and the Women's Local Government Society defended the rights of women to serve on the new . in 1901 she was elected with three others to represent the London school boards on the Association of School Boards.[1]

Maitland died in Hampstead in 1923.[1]

Legacy[]

Maitland's grandchildren included Geraldine Aves.[4]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d Jane Martin, ‘Maitland , Emma Knox (1844–1923)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2011 accessed 11 Jan 2017
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Jane Martin (15 July 2010). Women and the Politics of Schooling in Victorian and Edwardian England. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 52–70. ISBN 978-0-8264-2636-9.
  3. ^ Gary McCulloch (January 2005). The RoutledgeFalmer Reader in History of Education. Psychology Press. pp. 125–. ISBN 978-0-415-34570-5.
  4. ^ Phyllis Willmott, ‘Aves, Dame Geraldine Maitland (1898–1986)’, rev. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 11 Jan 2017
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