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Annie Coultate (née de Lacy, c. 1856 - 1931) was a teacher and leading suffragist in York, England.




Life


Coultate was born in Fulford, North Yorkshire, in 1856. She trained as a pupil-teacher and was later employed at Fishergate Elementary School in York. She married Frank Coultate in 1881 and they had two children.




Activism


Coultate became involved in campaigning for women's enfranchisement after being inspired by a talk given by Emmeline Pankhurst in York during 1908. She founded the local Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) branch in York during 1910 and when she was 55 years old. Coultate organised speakers from the Scarborough WSPU branch, such as Adela Pankhurst and Marion Mackenzie, to address the branch in York, and spoke at Scarborough WSPU meetings in return.
Her activism included selling the Votes for Women newspaper from door to door around York, organising the local suffragette boycott of the 1911 census with Violet Key Jones, and helping Lilian Lenton escape house arrest during her release from prison under the Cat and Mouse Act.




Death


Coultate died in 1931 and was buried at St. Stephen's Church, Acomb.




References

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