page_title: Church League for Women's Suffrage
section_title: Notable members
hierarchical_section_title: Church League for Women's Suffrage / Notable members
caption_attribution_description: Church League for Women's Suffrage meeting in Brighton 2 July 1913 by Muriel Darton. Florence Canning and Susila Anita (Susie) Bonnerjee are in the pic ref http://www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-news-from-LSE/2019/g-July-2019/Unearthed-photograph-highlights-important-role-of-Indian-suffragettes. Canning is hatless in the centre of a group of clergy.
context_page_description: The Church League for Women's Suffrage was an organisation campaigning for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom.
  The league was started in London, but by 1913 it had branches across England, in Wales and Scotland and Ireland.
context_section_description: The League was founded by the Reverend Claude Hinscliff in 1909, who was its secretary for a long time. Other founding members included Margaret Nevinson and Olive Wharry, and Joan Cather, whose husband Lt. John Leonard Cather was chair of its finance committee.
  Notable members included Frances Balfour and Louise Creighton and the more militant Muriel Matters, Florence Canning, the outstanding Maude Royden,and Lady Constance Lytton. Emily Wilding Davison, who died under the King's horse at Epsom, was a member, and her funeral was held at St George's, Bloomsbury, led by its vicar, Charles Baumgarten (also a member of the League), Claude Hinscliff, and Charles Escreet, Archdeacon of Lewisham.
  The Irish Church had resisted the League because it refused to denounce the behavior of militant suffragettes. By 1913 Florence Canning led the executive committee and she was one of six of the thirteen members identified for their militancy.
caption: CLWS meeting in Brighton in 1913 by Muriel Darton, a photographer who worked pro bono for suffrage causes. Florence Canning is the lady without a hat in the centre within a ring of clergy.[3]
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