The National Council of Women of Great Britain (NCWGB) 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".
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History
It was founded in 1895 and affiliated to the International Council of Women (ICW) in 1897.
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.
It supported the work of the Equal Pay Campaign Committee 1941-1956.
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.
Notable members
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: Hon Mrs Home Peel
1943: E. Wilhelmina Ness
Other members
Notable 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
Charis Frankenberg (on health committee, and member of the Salford branch)