Agnes Maude Royden, later known as Maude Royden-Shaw, was an English preacher, suffragist and campaigner for the ordination of women.
13 Facts About Maude Royden
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Maude Royden grew up in the family home of Frankby Hall, Wirral with her parents and seven siblings.
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Maude Royden was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford where she gained a degree in History.
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Maude Royden lectured on English literature for the university extension movement and in 1909 was elected to the executive committee of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies.
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Maude Royden was active in the Church League for Women's Suffrage.
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Maude Royden broke with the NUWSS over its support for the war effort and was among the 101 signatories of the Open Christmas Letter in 1914.
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Maude Royden became the secretary of the Fellowship of Reconciliation with other Christian pacifists.
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Maude Royden became well known as a speaker on social and religious subjects.
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Maude Royden made several worldwide preaching tours from the 1920s to the 1940s.
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Maude Royden received an honorary degree from Mills College, California in 1937.
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Maude Royden joined the Peace Pledge Union but later renounced pacifism, believing Nazism to be a greater evil than war.
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Maude Royden wrote in her 1947 autobiography A Threefold Cord of their love for each other from first meeting in 1901.
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Papers of Agnes Maude Royden are held in The Women's Library at the London School of Economics and Political Science, ref 7AMR.