Mary Emma Macintosh

Mary Emma Macintosh (died c. 1916) was a South African suffragist. She was the first President of the Women's Enfranchisement Association of the Union.[1]

Life

She studied at the Huguenot College. She married a merchant, William MacIntosh.[2][3] She was active in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the Guild of Loyal Women, and the Empire League.[4]

References
  1. Woman's Leader. National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies. 1912.
  2. The South African Woman's Who's who. Biographies (Pty.) Limited. 1938.
  3. Lewis, Thomas Henry (1913). Women of South Africa: A Historical, Educational & Industrial Encyclopaedia & Social Directory of the Women of the Sub-continent. Le Quesne & Hooten-Smith.
  4. "The women's suffrage movement: The politics of gender race and class by Cherryl Walker | South African History Online". web.archive.org. 2018-03-27. Retrieved 2021-04-06.


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