Mary Emma Macintosh (died c. 1916) was a South African suffragist. She was the first President of the Women's Enfranchisement Association of the Union.[1]

Life

She studied at the Huguenot College. She married a merchant, William MacIntosh.[2][3] She was active in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the Guild of Loyal Women, and the Empire League.[4] Birth 31 Jul 1864 Death 2 Dec 1915 (aged 51) Burial South End Cemetery Port Elizabeth, Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality, Eastern Cape, South Africa Memorial ID 140645835

References

  1. ↑ Woman's Leader. National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies. 1912.
  2. ↑ The South African Woman's Who's who. Biographies (Pty.) Limited. 1938.
  3. ↑ Lewis, Thomas Henry (1913). Women of South Africa: A Historical, Educational & Industrial Encyclopaedia & Social Directory of the Women of the Sub-continent. Le Quesne & Hooten-Smith.
  4. ↑ "The women's suffrage movement: The politics of gender race and class by Cherryl Walker | South African History Online". 27 March 2018. Archived from the original on 27 March 2018. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
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