34 Facts About Margaret Nevinson

Margaret Wynne Nevinson was a British suffrage campaigner and author.

Margaret Nevinson was a prominent early female Justice of the Peace in London, as well as serving as a Poor Law Guardian.

Margaret Nevinson was the daughter of the Rev Timothy Jones and his wife Mary Louisa Bowmar of Canning Place, Leicester, second daughter of Thomas Bowmar, married in 1854; her father, a graduate of Magdalen College, Oxford, died in 1875.

Margaret Nevinson was Welsh, from Silian, Cardiganshire, and a Welsh speaker.

Margaret Nevinson commented that Anderdon knew when he took on the parish that "more than ten people had refused it".

Margaret Nevinson's mother fearing that knowledge of Greek might make Margaret unmarriageable, it was replaced by French and drawing.

Margaret Nevinson attended St Anne's Rewley, a convent school in Oxford she disliked, and a finishing school in a chateau near Paris up to her father's death.

Margaret Nevinson had a teaching career, as a governess in a family, a pupil teacher in Cologne, and as a classics mistress at South Hampstead High School.

Margaret Nevinson married in 1884 Henry Nevinson; although the marriage lasted, it appears that both parties regretted it, and in their autobiographies they gave it minimal attention.

Margaret Nevinson taught French at the Hall, and supported a girls' club at St Jude, Whitechapel.

Margaret Nevinson worked as a rent-collector for landlords that were charitable organisations.

Margaret Nevinson was one of the group, with Beatrice Potter, Ella Pycroft and Maurice Paul, who tried at this period to make the approach into a practical plan of management.

Margaret Nevinson was a collector both at the Katharine Buildings, for Olivia Hill, and at the Lolesworth Buildings in Spitalfields.

Henry Margaret Nevinson published in 1895 Neighbours of Ours: Slum Stories of London, a collection of 1880s stories based on the couple's East End times.

Margaret Nevinson was not credited, and was aggrieved, having supplied background material.

Margaret Nevinson was a constant public speaker for the suffrage cause during the later Edwardian period.

Margaret Nevinson played on her Welsh heritage, in a speech at London's Steinway Hall saying "the Welsh ought to make good suffragists".

Margaret Nevinson had multiple and overlapping memberships in women's activist groups.

Margaret Nevinson joined the Hampstead branch of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, which believed in a constitutional route to votes for women.

Margaret Nevinson later refused to pay taxes, which she should have done on behalf of her husband, then working abroad.

At a contentious meeting of the London Society for Women's Suffrage in November 1908, Margaret Nevinson was in a minority group of four who pressed for resolutions requiring the NUWSS to adopt an electoral stance opposed to the Asquith administration, and requiring that the NUWSS executive committee should shun party political positions.

Millicent Fawcett took a forceful line against the proposals: with her three colleagues Flora Murray, Mrs Hylton Dale and Louisa Garrett Anderson, Margaret Nevinson was associated with the WSPU, and suspicion that the WSPU was looking to control the NUWSS led to defeat.

Margaret Nevinson early committed the participation of the Women Writers' Suffrage League.

Margaret Nevinson wrote in the Suffrage Annual that some thousands of women did not appear in the census for that reason.

In 1916 Margaret Nevinson replied to an appeal from the Jesuit army chaplain Bernard Vaughan in an editorial for The Vote.

Margaret Nevinson queried the war role assigned to mothers, and drew attention to jingoism in churches, and oppressive treatment of conscientious objectors.

Margaret Nevinson became a vice-president of the Women Peace Crusade in 1928.

Margaret Nevinson resigned as a Poor Law guardian in Hampstead in 1922, a post she had held from 1904, over issues with the running of the Hampstead Poor Law Hospital, and the withholding of outdoor relief from the unemployed.

Margaret Nevinson was one of the first female magistrates in England, and the first woman to sit on the criminal bench in the county of London, adjudicating at the criminal petty sessions.

Margaret Nevinson went on to be one of three women first appointed to the body choosing London magistrates, with Beatrix Lyall and Marion Phillips.

Margaret Nevinson visited the USA to study the probation system in 1921.

Margaret Nevinson wrote many articles for the WFL journal, The Vote, and wrote suffrage pamphlets.

Margaret Nevinson was secretary of the Actresses' Franchise League, succeeding Bessie Hatton.

Henry Margaret Nevinson's husband was active in the suffrage movement, becoming a founder of the Men's Political Union for Women's Enfranchisement for which he wrote at least one dramatic sketch.