Almyra Gray

Almyra Vickers Gray
Born
Almyra Vickers

March 15, 1862
DiedNovember 6, 1939
Spouse(s)Gray
Parent(s)Albert Vickers (1838–1919) and Helen Horton Vickers
RelativesVickers

Almyra Vickers Gray or Almyra Gray (March 15, 1862 – November 6, 1939) was a British suffragist and social reformer.

Life

Gray was born in Sheffield into the influential Vickers family. Her father was Albert Vickers and her mother was the American Helen Horton and she was their first child[1]

In 1907 she was elected President of the National Union of Women Workers.[2]

In 1925 a memorial was unveiled at York Minster which recorded the names of over 1,500 women who died as a result of World War One. The money for the memorial was raised by Helen Little and independently Gray. It was speculated that the memorial was agreed to by the Dean of the cathedral because of the need to restore stained glass windows that had been removed in 1916 because of the fear of damage by enemy bombs.[3]

In 1927 Shelson Press published "Papers and diaries of a York family 1764-1839" by Almira Vickers Gray.[4]

In 1929 her husband Edwin Gray died.

References

  1. ^ Broughton, Trev Lynn (2019-08-08), "Gray [née Vickers], Almyra (1862–1939), social reformer and philanthropist", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.59921, ISBN 9780198614128, retrieved 2019-08-11
  2. ^ Glick, Daphne (1995). The National Council of Women of Great Britain: the first one hundred years. National Council of Women of Great Britain. ISBN 978-0900915079.
  3. ^ Alison S. Fell (12 July 2018). Women as Veterans in Britain and France after the First World War. Cambridge University Press. pp. 46–. ISBN 978-1-108-42576-6.
  4. ^ Almira Vickers Gray (1927). Papers and diaries of a York family 1764-1839. Sheldon Press.

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