Annie Pearson Cowdray Suffragette Womens Lib President Old Hand Signed Postcard

nr29 Antique hand signed postcard of Annie Pearson Viscountess Cowdray English society hostess, famous suffragist and philanthropist.  Please see her history below.  She has personally autographed the souvenir where her signature rests perfectly accompanying her portrait and undedicated. Shows a little ageing but otherwise unused in great condition.

_Annie Pearson, Viscountess Cowdray, GBE ( 4 June 1860 15 April 1932) was an English society hostess, suffragist and philanthropist. She served as the President of the Women's Liberal Federation from 1921 until 1923 and was also the Honorary Treasurer of the Liberal Women's Suffrage Union.  She was a feminist and supporter of Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom. She was a member of the National Women's Liberal Federation, which had many local chapters, serving as a president of the National organization from 1921 until 1923. She was nominated and then formally elected in 1921 and 1922 to one-year terms. The constitution required that a President not serve for more than two years. In 1921 Lady Cowdray, as President of the National Liberal Women's Federation signed a petition pushing for a partial disarmament of England's military, though her sentiments paralleled many British citizens at the time, as a result of the hardships of WWI.  In 1921, during Lady Cowdray's term as President, the Women's Liberal Federation adopted a resolution for the release of Irish prisoners that had been interned and held without trial and addressed the need to investigate the statements of authorities regarding the treatment of Irish prisoners in internment camps.Topics of interest for the National Women's Liberal Federation included but were not confined to free trade, temperance, war debt and disarmament, divorce law reform, housing, as well as legislation affecting women and children, education, industrial problems, electoral reform, and the organization of the Women's National Liberal Federation. She also served as the Honorary Treasurer of the Liberal Women's Suffrage Philanthropy Political career Union, as suffrage was a major concern to women of the era._

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