The Antis’ Ultimatum: A letter announcing the intention of its signatories to offer “strenuous opposition to the extension of electoral rights to women” has been sent to the press by: Sarah Boyce, E. M. Burgwin, Beatrice Chamberlain, Floral Fardell, Lily Frere, M. E. Jersey, Margaret M. Macmillan, V. Montrose, Ellen S. Pinsent (sic), Gladys Potts, Catherine E. Robson, Maud Tree, H. S. Wantage, Mary A. Ward, Bryce, Edward Clark, H. Craik, James Crichton Browne, Cromer, Curzon, A. V. Dicey, George Hamilton, H. Hensley, Heason, Charles Hobhouse, W. W. Jackson, Rudyard Kipling, Loreburn, H. J. Mackinder, John Marsie, Edward A. Mitchell, John Murray, Weardale. These people protest that they “cannot be parties to any attempt at a premature and un-authorized solution – all they are asked to do is to stand aside, but we must protest that so far from being premature the solution of the votes for women question was overdue when the present generation was in its infancy!
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949