词条 | Ellison Scotland Gibb |
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| name = Ellison Scotland Gibb | image = Ellison Gibb and Frances Parker.jpg | caption = Frances Parker (left) and Ellison Gibb. Evening Telegraph and Post Wednesday, 30 October 1912, page 1. | birth_date = {{birth date|1879|3|6|df=y}} | birth_place = Glasgow, Scotland | death_date = 1970 | death_place = Ayr, Scotland | occupation = Political activist, chess player | parents = Peter Walker Gibb Margaret Skirving | relatives = Margaret Skirving Gibb (sister) }} Ellison Scotland Gibb (1879–1970) was a Scottish suffragette and chess player. She was born in 1879. Her father was Peter Walker Gibb, a fish merchant, and her mother was Margaret Skirving. She was one of six siblings, one of whom was fellow suffragette Margaret Skirving Gibb. She died in Ayr in 1970. SuffragetteShe was an active member of the Women's Social and Political Union[1]. In 1910, she was appointed as the honorary secretary of the Actresses' Franchise League in Glasgow[2]. In 1911 she refused to partake in the census, along with her mother and the rest of the family[3] [4]. She was arrested on five separate occasions between 1910 and 1912[5][6]. On 30 October she and Frances Parker smashed one window, and attempted to smash another in Dundee[7]In November 1910, she and eight other women were arrested for throwing stones at the premises of the Secretary of State for the Home Department[8]. In March 1912, she and Frances Parker sat next to Winston Churchill on a train from Stranraer to Glasgow, and asked him his opinion on votes for women and told him of the sufferings of women imprisoned in Holloway. Churchill described his experience with Gibb as "intolerable, disgusting, a nuisance, you are a low woman". [9]. In November 1912, she was assaulted by a man named Edwin Heath Smith while she was attempting to protest to the Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith in Ladybank, Cupar[10]. In 1913, she bought Sylvia Pankhurst's Cat and Mouse Act licence (sold in aid of Women's Social and Political Union funds for £100[11] Chess careerIn 1907, Ellison Gibb won the Ladies' Minor tournament at the Scottish Ladies' Championship[12]. In 1921, she drew against chess player, Blackburne when he visited the Glasgow Ladies' club on 26 October for a 14-boards simultaneous display. In the same year, she was appointed President of the Glasgow Ladies' Chess Club[13]. She played in the Glasgow Ladies' team that reached the final of the 1922-23 season's Spens Cup[14]. References1. ^{{cite book |last1=Leneman |first1=Leah |title=A Guid Cause |date=1995 |publisher=Mercat Press |isbn=1873644485 |page=259 }} {{Women's suffrage in Scotland}}{{Suffrage}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Gibb, Ellison Scotland}}2. ^{{cite news |title=Common Cause |date=3 November 1910}} 3. ^{{cite web |last1=McGowan |first1=Alan |title=The Gibb Family Chess Players and Suffragettes |url=https://www.chessscotland.com/documents/history/biographies/gibb.htm |website=Chess Scotland |accessdate=23 July 2018}} 4. ^{{cite web |last1=Fotheringham |first1=Ann |title=Thanks for the Memories: Glasgow's Votes for Women celebration at Mitchell |url=https://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/16900627.thanks-for-the-memories-glasgows-votes-for-women-celebration-at-mitchell/ |website=Evening Times |accessdate=27 September 2018}} 5. ^{{cite web |title=Suffragettes: Amnesty of August 1914: Index of Women Arrested, 1906-1914 |url=www.ancestry.co.uk |website=Ancestry |accessdate=23 July 2018}} 6. ^{{cite web |title=Roll of Honour of Suffragette Prisoners 1905-1914 |url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/ee5a777f-1d7c-416b-a249-c7cb64fcc0a8 |website=National Archives |accessdate=23 July 2018}} 7. ^{{cite web |title=Reports of militant attacks in Scottish newspapers |url=https://womenssuffragescotland.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/whs-suffrage-scotland-appendix-ii-reports-of-attacks1.pdf |website=Women's History Scotland |accessdate=23 July 2018}}. 8. ^{{cite news |title=Scotsman |date=25 November 1910}} 9. ^{{cite news |title=Evening Post |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19120327.2.113 |accessdate=23 July 2018 |date=27 March 1912}} 10. ^{{cite news |title=Larne Times |date=23 November 1912}} 11. ^{{cite book |last1=Leneman |first1=Leah |title=A Guid Cause: Women's Suffrage Movement in Scotland |date=1995 |publisher=Mercat |isbn=1873644485}} 12. ^{{cite news |title=The Chess Amateur |date=May 1907}} 13. ^{{cite news |title=Falkirk Herald |date=9 November 1921}} 14. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.chessscotland.com/documents/archiveresults/scup1923.htm |website=Chess Scotland |accessdate=29 July 2018}} 10 : 1879 births|1970 deaths|British suffragists|Chess in Scotland|Scottish suffragettes|Women's rights activists|People associated with Glasgow|Women's Social and Political Union|Scottish activists|Scottish feminists |
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