Grace Paterson

Grace Chalmers Paterson was a campaigner, suffragist, temperance activist and educationalist.

Grace Paterson
Born1843
Glasgow
Died1925
Edinburgh
Known forSchool board member, temperance activist, suffragist, and founder of the Glasgow School of Cookery
Parent(s)Georgina Smith and William Paterson

Early life

Paterson was born in Glasgow to Georgina Smith and William Paterson, a merchant.

Domestic education

She campaigned for the improvement of domestic education for working class girls. She was a friend and supporter of Janet Galloway and Christian Guthrie Wright, founder of the Edinburgh School of Cookery.[1]

She was one of the first women elected to a school board in Glasgow, in 1885.[1] She also founded the Glasgow school of cookery, alongside Margaret Black.[2] She was the "driving force" behind this institution.[3] She was involved in the temperance movement in Scotland.[1]

Women's Suffrage

She was a founder member of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women's Suffrage.[4] She joined the WSPU in 1907.[1]

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gollark: What's "MSM"?
gollark: Apparently their initial plan was just to hope for herd immunity or something, based on models they came up with for a flu pandemic, but said plans had handwaved the issue of ventilators, and the models didn't actually match COVID-19, and it took them a while to actually do something about this.
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gollark: If he *does* die it'll be very bad for morale.

References
  1. Davidson, Julie (2018). Paterson, Grace Chalmers in The New Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women. p. 348. ISBN 9781474436281.
  2. "TheGlasgowStory: 1830s to 1914: Personalities". The Glasgow Story. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  3. "Records of the Glasgow School of Cookery, teacher training school, Glasgow, Scotland". JISC Archives Hub. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  4. King, Elspeth (1978). Papers on the Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women's Suffrage. Glasgow: People's Palace Museum. p. 11.


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