Agnes Dollan
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Lady Agnes Dollan MBE |
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| Born |
Agnes Johnston Moir 16 August 1887 Springburn, Glasgow, Scotland |
| Died | 16 July 1966 (aged 78) Glasgow Victoria Infirmary, Glasgow |
| Cause of death | cardiac failure |
| Nationality | Scottish |
| Political party | Independent Labour Party, Labour Party |
| Spouse(s) | Patrick Dollan |
| Children | 1 son, James H. Dollan |
| Parent(s) | Anne Wilkinson, Henry Moir |
| Awards | Member of the Order of the British Empire, awarded 1946 |
Lady Agnes Johnston Dollan MBE (née Moir) (16 August 1887 – 16 July 1966) was a Scottish suffragette and political activist. A leader of the Glasgow Rent Strikes, she was the first female Labour candidate to stand for election to Glasgow City Council.
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. She attended school until the age of eleven and left to work in a factory. She later became a Post Office telephone operator and joined the Women's Labour League, assisting Mary Reid Macarthur in creating a women's post office trade union. She joined the Women's Social and Political Union, an organisation campaigning to secure the vote for women.
She met Patrick Dollan, a journalist and member of the Independent Labour Party, via the Clarion Scouts and a year later they were married on 20 September 1912. Their only child, James, was born in 1913 and was exempted from religious instruction at school. He 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 and Helen Crawfurd. She worked to link the rent strikes movement with peace campaigns, and as Treasurer of Glasgow Women's Housing Association led the campaign against Glasgow City Council's rent increases. Dollan was jailed briefly in 1917 for protesting against high rents.
She became a prominent figure in Glasgow politics and spoke at the 1917 May Day demo in Glasgow Green.
She was a member of the Women's Social and Political Union and the Women's Labour League.
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