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CodeDS/UK/5784
NameMunro; Anna Gillies Macdonald (1881-1962); Scottish suffragette, campaigner
Dates1881-1962
GenderFemale
BiographyShe joined the Women's Social and Political Union and founded a branch in Dunfermline in 1906. She was briefly imprisoned in 1908 for her protesting, and participated in the protests around the 1911 Census, which the suffragettes boycotted. She married Sidney Ashman in 1913, and though she legally took the surname Munro-Ashman she was still known as Anna Munro in her work, and she continued to be active working for women's rights throughout her life. She was also a socialist and temperance campaigner.

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