Lady Griselda Cheape

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Lady Griselda Johanna Helen Cheape (20 December 1865 – 12 February 1934) was a British anti-suffrage campaigner.^[1]

Early life

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Born in Angus, Scotland, Griselda Ogilvy was the sixth child of Henrietta Blanche Stanley and Sir David Graham Drummond Ogilvy, Earl of Airlie.^[1]

Family life

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Griselda Ogilvy married James Cheape of Strathtyrum in 1897. They went on to have three children.^[1]

Political activity

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She was interested in the care of children and enrolled for nursing at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children Edinburgh. She was also assisted at the Pendlebury Sick Children's Home in Manchester, Dundee Royal Infirmary and the London Temperance Hospital.^[1]

The issue of temperance was a cause she promoted and she was active within British Women's Temperance Association (BWTA).^[2]

She was prominent in the Scottish National Women's Anti-Suffragette League (WASL),^[1] founding the branch in St Andrews in 1909 ^[3]

The BWTA were pro women's suffrage, however the St Andrews branch where Lady Cheape was president (1909–12) ^[1]^[4]^[5] was opposed. In 1913 Lady Cheape formed the 'Beehive'- an anti-suffrage society based in St Andrews.^[5] She was the President of the St Andrews Branch of the Scottish League for Opposing Women's Suffrage.^[6]

"Lady Cheape believed that direct political representation would undermine, rather than amplify, the idea of feminine moral superiority. Her opinions may be traced to her strongly evangelical approach to temperance reform that emphasised moral, rather than legal, ‘suasion.’"^[7]

Death

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She died in 1934 in London.^[1]

References

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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Ewan, Professor Elizabeth L.; Ewan, Elizabeth; Innes, Sue; Reynolds, Sian; Pipes, Rose (2006). The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women. pp. 71–72. ISBN 0748617132.
^ Smitley, Megan (10 September 2007). "'inebriates', 'heathens', templars and suffragists: Scotland and imperial feminism c. 1870-1914". Women's History Review. 11 (3): Issue 3, PP 455–480. doi:10.1080/09612020200200331.
^ Elizabeth., Crawford (2006). The women's suffrage movement in Britain and Ireland : a regional survey. London: Routledge. ISBN 0415383323. OCLC 59149398.
^ Scottish women : a documentary history, 1780-1914. Breitenbach, Esther. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2013. ISBN 9780748683406. OCLC 857078955.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
^ ^a ^b K., Smitley, Megan (2009). The feminine public sphere : middle-class women in civic life in Scotland, c.1870-1914. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 9780719079665. OCLC 430498979.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ "The Scotsman". 14 December 2006. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
^ Smitley, Megan (10 September 2007). "'Inebriates', 'Heathens', Templars and Suffragists: Scotland and imperial feminism c.1870-1914". Women's History Review. 11 (3): 455–480. doi:10.1080/09612020200200331.

External links

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British Library: Votes for Woman- The Anti-suffrage Movement

Women's suffrage in Scotland

Organisations

Campaigners

Suffragists	Wilhelmina Hay Abbott Jane Arthur Mary Anne Baikie Mary Bell Nannie Brown Mary Burton Edward Caird Jane Clapperton Jessie Craigen Muriel Craigie Mary Crudelius Margaret C. Davidson John McAusland Denny Helen Fraser Elizabeth Finlayson Gauld Edith Hacon Mary Henderson Elsie Inglis Margaret Irwin Christina Jamieson Jessie Keppie Harriet Leisk Anna Lindsay Thomas Martin Lindsay Louisa Lumsden Ann Macbeth Louisa Macdonald Chrystal MacMillan Alice McLaren Sarah Mair Lavinia Malcolm Flora Masson Lilly Maxwell Isabella Fyvie Mayo Frances Melville Graham Moffat Mary Murdoch (Hull) Eunice Murray Frances Murray Sylvia Murray Margaret Mylne Jessie Newbery Grace Paterson Elizabeth Pease Nichol Elizabeth Margaret Pace Emily Rosaline Orme Jane Rae Marion Kirkland Reid Jessie Saxby Frances Simson Mary Anderson Snodgrass Jessie M. Soga Mary Somerville Catherine Helen Spence Flora Stevenson Louisa Stevenson Charlotte Carmichael Stopes Annie S. Swan Jane Taylour Muriel Thompson Isabella Tod Eliza Wigham Jane Wigham
Suffragettes	Janie Allan Mary Sophia Allen Helen Archdale Janet Barrowman Edith Marian Begbie Catherine Hogg Blair Jane Esdon Brailsford Lucy Burns Isabella Carrie Dorothea Chalmers Smith Lila Clunas Catherine Corbett Annie Walker Craig Helen Crawfurd Agnes Dollan Marion Wallace Dunlop Flora Drummond Louise Eates Maude Edwards Margaret Milne Farquharson Ellison Scotland Gibb Margaret Skirving Gibb Marion Gilchrist Frances Graves Mary Pollock Grant Laura Grey Marion Grieve Florence Haig Edith Hudson Agnes Husband Maud Joachim Mabel Jones Alice Stewart Ker Isabella Leitch Mary Macarthur Agnes Syme Macdonald Florence Macfarlane Margaret Macfarlane Jenny McCallum Priscilla Bright McLaren Frances McPhun Margaret McPhun Mary Maloney Jessie C. Methven Maggie Moffat Ethel Moorhead Anna Munro Flora Murray Helen Ogston Adela Pankhurst Frances Parker Isabella Bream Pearce Caroline Phillips Mary Phillips Annot Robinson Amy Sanderson Arabella Scott Muriel Scott Maud Arncliffe Sennett Margaret Skinnider Georgiana Solomon and her daughter Daisy Solomon Barbara Steel Jessie Stephen Elizabeth and Agnes Thomson Bessie Watson Mona Chalmers Watson Helen Wilkie or Annot Robinson Henria Leech Williams
Others	Rachel Cook Helen Cruickshank Margaret Neill Fraser Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon Frances Ivens Jennie Lee Agnes McLaren Helen Matthews
Anti-suffrage activists	Lady Griselda Cheape Violet Graham, Duchess of Montrose

Historians and
writers

Art, culture and
commemoration

Holloway Jingles
Hunger Strike Medal
The Suffrage Oak
The Suffragette Handkerchief
WSPU Holloway Prisoners Banner
War Song Justice for Ever
Scotland's Suffragette Trumps cards and Scotland's Suffrage History Education Packs, produced by Protests and Suffragettes

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