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Agnes Dollan
Agnes Johnston Dollan MBE (née Moir; 16 August 1887 – 16 July 1966), also known as Agnes, Lady Dollan, was a Scottish suffragette and political activist. She was a leading campaigner during the Glasgow Rent Strikes, and a founding organiser of the Women's Peace Crusade. In 1919, she was the first woman selected by the Labour party to stand for election to Glasgow Town Council, and later became Lady Provost of Glasgow.
Dollan was born on Springburn Road in Springburn, Glasgow on 16 August 1887 to Anne Wilkinson and Henry Moir, a blacksmith in the locomotive works. She was one of eleven children.
Dollan attended school locally until the age of eleven before being forced to leave due to family poverty. Dollan also attended the Socialist Sunday Schools, where she "graduated as a Socialist".
On leaving school, Dollan went first to work in a factory before becoming a Post Office telephone operator. During this latter job, Dollan joined the Women's Labour League and assisted Mary Reid Macarthur in creating a women's post office trade union.
Dollan joined the Independent Labour Party (ILP) aged 18, and then the Women's Social and Political Union.
Dollan had met Patrick Dollan, a journalist and member of the Independent Labour Party, via the Clarion Scouts. Dollan was married on 20 September 1912, and her only child, James, was born in 1913, and she was exempted from religious instruction at school. James Dollan also became a journalist.
Agnes Dollan became politically active during the Red Clydeside period of Glasgow's history as an organiser of the 1915 Glasgow Rent Strikes alongside Mary Barbour, Helen Crawfurd, Mary Burns Laird and Mary Jeff. Dollan worked to link the rent strikes movement with peace campaigns, and as Treasurer of Glasgow Women's Housing Association led the campaign against rent increases imposed by landlords. Dollan was jailed briefly in 1917 for protesting against high rents. Dollan was also a member of The Women's Peace Crusade in Glasgow.
Dollan became a prominent figure in Glasgow politics and spoke at the 1917 May Day demo in Glasgow Green.
Agnes Dollan
Agnes Johnston Dollan MBE (née Moir; 16 August 1887 – 16 July 1966), also known as Agnes, Lady Dollan, was a Scottish suffragette and political activist. She was a leading campaigner during the Glasgow Rent Strikes, and a founding organiser of the Women's Peace Crusade. In 1919, she was the first woman selected by the Labour party to stand for election to Glasgow Town Council, and later became Lady Provost of Glasgow.
Dollan was born on Springburn Road in Springburn, Glasgow on 16 August 1887 to Anne Wilkinson and Henry Moir, a blacksmith in the locomotive works. She was one of eleven children.
Dollan attended school locally until the age of eleven before being forced to leave due to family poverty. Dollan also attended the Socialist Sunday Schools, where she "graduated as a Socialist".
On leaving school, Dollan went first to work in a factory before becoming a Post Office telephone operator. During this latter job, Dollan joined the Women's Labour League and assisted Mary Reid Macarthur in creating a women's post office trade union.
Dollan joined the Independent Labour Party (ILP) aged 18, and then the Women's Social and Political Union.
Dollan had met Patrick Dollan, a journalist and member of the Independent Labour Party, via the Clarion Scouts. Dollan was married on 20 September 1912, and her only child, James, was born in 1913, and she was exempted from religious instruction at school. James Dollan also became a journalist.
Agnes Dollan became politically active during the Red Clydeside period of Glasgow's history as an organiser of the 1915 Glasgow Rent Strikes alongside Mary Barbour, Helen Crawfurd, Mary Burns Laird and Mary Jeff. Dollan worked to link the rent strikes movement with peace campaigns, and as Treasurer of Glasgow Women's Housing Association led the campaign against rent increases imposed by landlords. Dollan was jailed briefly in 1917 for protesting against high rents. Dollan was also a member of The Women's Peace Crusade in Glasgow.
Dollan became a prominent figure in Glasgow politics and spoke at the 1917 May Day demo in Glasgow Green.
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