Louise Samuel
Dame Louise Samuel | |
|---|---|
| Honorary Secretary of the Conservative Women's Franchise Association | |
| In office 1908–1918 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Louise Victoria Steibel 5 August 1870 |
| Died | 13 October 1925 (aged 55) |
| Occupation | Suffragist, charity worker |
Dame Louise Victoria Samuel, DBE (née Steibel; 5 August 1870 – 13 October 1925), sometimes called Louise Gilbert Samuel, was an English suffragist and charity worker.
Biography
[edit]Samuel was born on 5 August 1870. She was the daughter of Isaac Steibe. In 1889 she married Gilbert Ellis Samuel, son of Edwin Samuel and brother of Sir Stuart Samuel and Herbert Samuel, Viscount Samuel.[1]
From its foundation in 1908 until its dissolution in 1918, she served as honorary secretary of the Conservative Women's Franchise Association, a non-militant women's suffrage movement.[2][3]
In 1919, Samuel was elected to Chelsea Borough Council for the Municipal Reform Party.[3] In August 1914, she co-founded the War Refugees' Committee. She was a member of the Managing Committee and head of the Health Section throughout the First World War.
In 1918, she was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for her refugee work. She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 1920 civilian war honours.
Samuel died on 13 October 1925.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Auchterlonie, Mitzi (24 October 2007). Conservative Suffragists: The Women's Vote and the Tory Party. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 220. ISBN 978-0-85771-159-5.
- ^ Summers, Anne (2017), Summers, Anne (ed.), "'Votes for Women!'", Christian and Jewish Women in Britain, 1880-1940: Living with Difference, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 63–83, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-42150-6_5, ISBN 978-3-319-42150-6, retrieved 15 April 2025
- ^ a b c Dame Louise Samuel. Woman's Suffrage, the Common Cause of Humanity, National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies. 1925. p. 301.
Sources
[edit]- Obituaries, The Times, 14 October 1925 and 16 October 1925
- 1925 deaths
- Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- English activists
- English women activists
- English Jews
- English suffragists
- Municipal Reform Party politicians
- Members of Chelsea Metropolitan Borough Council
- People educated at Notting Hill & Ealing High School
- British women in World War I
- 1870 births
- Women councillors in England
- British charity and campaign group workers