Gertrude Mary Tuckwell was an English trade unionist, social worker, author, and magistrate.
14 Facts About Gertrude Tuckwell
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Gertrude Tuckwell's mother was the eldest daughter of Captain Henry Strong, an Indian army officer, whose younger sister, feminist and trade unionist Emilia Dilke, would have a profound effect on Tuckwell's life.
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Gertrude Tuckwell was home-schooled in her family's Christian socialist tradition and trained to be a teacher in Liverpool from 1881.
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Gertrude Tuckwell was a teacher at Bishop Otter College in Chichester from 1882 to 1884, and then taught at a working-class infant school in Chelsea until forced to stop by ill health in 1890.
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Gertrude Tuckwell published The State and Its Children in 1894, opposing child labour.
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Gertrude Tuckwell was involved with the Women's Trade Union League from 1891, and succeeded Emilia Dilke as its President in 1905.
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Gertrude Tuckwell retired in 1918, but continued to campaigning on public health issues.
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Gertrude Tuckwell was her father's executor when he died in 1919, and he had previously dedicated his 1905 book Reminiscences of a Radical Parson to her.
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Alongside the other six women appointed in 1919, Gertrude Tuckwell was tasked with drawing up a list of women suitable for appointment as JPs from across the United Kingdom.
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Gertrude Tuckwell was a founder member of the Magistrates' Association in 1920, and was a member of its council from 1921 to 1940.
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Gertrude Tuckwell was the chair of the National Association of Probation Officers from 1933 to 1941.
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Gertrude Tuckwell spent the last twenty years of her life at Little Woodlands, Wormley, Surrey.
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Gertrude Tuckwell died on 5 August 1951 at the Royal Surrey County Hospital in Guildford.
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Gertrude Tuckwell's papers are lodged in the TUC Library Collections at the London Metropolitan University.