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Gladys Misick Morrell |
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1911Graduates from London University with an honours degree in English 1913Is organiser for the Cornwell phase of a six-week march throughout England held to raise the profile of suffragettes’ campaign 1914Holds first meeting for women’s suffrage in St. George’s, but few are interested 1918Votes in the first election in England in which women are allowed to vote 1919MCP Stanley Spurling tables a suffrage bill in Parliament, but it goes nowhere 1920Women in the US get the vote. 1923The Bermuda Woman Suffrage Society is formed. 1925The Bermuda Welfare Society is formed 1925Parliament turns back two suffrage bills. 1926Marries British Navy officer Capt. John Morrell 1928Mounts an unsuccessful challenge to Parish Vestry Act in a bid to win a seat on the Sandys Parish Vestry. British women get full voting rights on an equal footing with men 1930The BWSS presents a petition to the British governmentnothing happens.Morrell refuses to pay taxes, authorities seize her furniture, suffragettes buy it back at an auction. 1935Parliament rejects bill to allow women to vote in parish vestry elections. 1942Seeks support from blacks in a speech at Pembroke Hamilton Club April 21, 1944Parliament passes suffrage bill. May 15, 1944 Suffrage bill become law 1946In a by-election, suffragette Henrietta Tucker becomes the first woman to vote in a Bermuda election and Edna Tucker is the first black woman to cast a vote. 1948Hilda Aitken and Edna Watson make history as the first women elected to Parliament in the general election. |
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