National Council of Women of Great Britain

The National Council of Women exists to co-ordinate the voluntary efforts of women across Great Britain. Founded as the National Union of Women Workers, it said that it would "promote sympathy of thought and purpose among the women of Great Britain and Ireland".

History
It was founded in 1895. It changed its name to the National Council of Women of Great Britain & Ireland in 1918. In 1928 it changed its name to the National Council of Women of Great Britain.

Its early archives are held in the London Metropolitan University: Trades Union Congress Library Collections.

H. Pearl Adam published Women in Council, the history of the National Council of Women of Great Britain, in 1945.

Presidents

 * 1895: Louise Creighton
 * 1897: Mrs Alfred Booth
 * 1899:
 * 1900: Mrs Arthur Lyttelton
 * 1901: Mrs Arthur Lyttelton
 * 1902: Lady Constance Battersea
 * 1903: Mary Clifford
 * 1905: Elizabeth Cadbury
 * 1907: Mrs Edwin Gray
 * 1909:
 * 1910: Lady Laura Ridding
 * 1911: Mrs Alan Bright
 * 1913:
 * 1916: Maria Ogilvie Gordon
 * 1920: Maud Palmer, Countess of Selborne
 * 1921: Frances Balfour
 * 1923: Mrs George Morgan
 * 1925: Henrietta Franklin
 * 1928: Florence Ada Keynes
 * 1931: Lady Trustram Eve
 * 1933: Eva Hartree
 * 1937: Ruth Balfour
 * 1938: A. F. Johnston
 * 1940: E. Wilhelmina Ness
 * 1941: Home Peel
 * 1943: E. Wilhelmina Ness
 * 1945:
 * 1953: Kathleen Freeman
 * 1955: Mrs Stanley Moffat
 * 1957: Eva Isaacs, Marchioness of Reading
 * 1959: Joan Robins
 * 1962: Norah Dean
 * 1964: Kathleen Baxter
 * 1966: Joan Boulind
 * 1968: Guinevere Tilney
 * 1970:
 * 1972: Margaret Lampard
 * 1974: Kay Fox
 * 1976: Helen Waldsax
 * 1978: Diane Reid
 * 1980: Margaret Wingfield
 * 1984: Mary Mayne
 * 1986: Evelyn Fairfax Martin
 * 1988: Rosalind Preston
 * 1990: Elizabeth Bavidge
 * 1992: Patience Purdy
 * 1994: Jean Clark
 * 1996:
 * 2008: Sheila Eaton
 * 2012: Elsie Leadley
 * 2014: Gwenda Nicholas
 * 2017: Andrena Telford

Other members
Eminent members have included:
 * Henrietta Barnett
 * Nina Boyle
 * Lucy Cavendish
 * Emily Janes
 * Antonella Kerr, Marchioness of Lothian
 * Margaret MacDonald
 * Ray Michie, Baroness Michie of Gallanach
 * Dorothy Peto
 * Guinevere Tilney
 * Laura Veale — founder and president of Harrogate branch
 * Beatrice Webb
 * Florence Mildred White
 * Margaret Wintringham