Mrs Alice Westlake

Gender: Female

Marital Status: Married

Born: 1842

Died: 1923

Occupation: Artist

Main Suffrage Society: CCNSWS

Other Societies: LNSWS; EWC

1866 Petition: Yes

Petition Area: 16 Oxford Square, London, Middlesex, England

Sources:

Other sources: https://www.parliament.uk/1866
Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866?1928 (2001)

Further Information:

Family information: Daughter of Thomas Hare, a barrister, reformer and female suffrage supporter. In 1864, married John Westlake, barrister and social and political reformer.

Additional Information: In 1865, Alice was a member of the Kensington Society. She signed the 1866 petition and subscribed to the Enfranchisement of Women Committee (EWC) (1866?1867). She joined its successor, the London NSWS, and the Central Committee of the NSWS (CCNSWS) by 1882.

Other Suffrage Activities: Alice was an executive committee member of the Women's Liberal Unionist Association in the 1890s, and both she and her husband were very deeply involved with Elizabeth Garrett (Anderson) and her hospital for women. Alice was a member of Garrett's St Mary's Dispensary for Women and Children's first management committee, and became the treasurer of its successor, the New Hospital for Women, where she was still a vice president in 1922. She also held a seat on the London School Board between 1876 and 1888.

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