12 Facts About Kathleen Lyttelton

Mary Kathleen Lyttelton was a British activist, editor and writer.

Kathleen Lyttelton devoted much of her life to fighting for women's suffrage and for the improvement of women's lives in general.

Mary Kathleen Lyttelton Clive was born on 27 February 1856 in Belgravia, London.

Kathleen Lyttelton's father was the judge and Liberal politician George Clive, her mother Ann Sybella Martha Farquhar.

Kathleen Lyttelton founded The Cambridge Association For Women's Suffrage along with Millicent Fawcett in 1884, and Fawcett encouraged her to join the Executive of The Central Society For Women's Suffrage.

Kathleen Lyttelton was active with the Cambridge Women's Refuge, helping to raise funds for what would become the Cambridge Association for the Care of Girls which aimed to provide poor local girls with practical help with domestic economy and literacy.

In 1890, with her close friend Louise Creighton, Kathleen Lyttelton founded the Cambridge Ladies Dining Society, a group of believers in women's education who actively campaigned for the university to grant degrees to women; most were strong supporters of female suffrage.

In 1895, along with Arthur, Kathleen Lyttelton founded and later became chair of the executive committee of the Manchester and Salford Women's Trade Union Council, an organisation whose aim was to investigate working conditions and organise low-paid workers into unions.

Kathleen Lyttelton launched the Eccles branch of the Cooperative Women's Guild, and became a vice president of the National Union of Women Workers, as well as joining the committee of the Manchester National Society for Women's Suffrage.

Kathleen Lyttelton was elected president of the National Union of Women's Workers in 1900 and again in 1901.

Kathleen Lyttelton moved to a house in Gower Street, London, near that of Millicent Fawcett with whom she published Why Women Want the Vote in 1906.

Kathleen Lyttelton died at the age of 50 on 12 January 1907, at the Clives' family seat at Perrystone Court, Herefordshire.