Annie Tomlinson

Annie Tomlinson or Annie Bamford (29 June 1870 – 6 April 1933) was a British journalist and co-operative movement supporter.

Annie Tomlinson
Born29 June 1870
Rochdale
Died6 April 1933
Blackpool
NationalityUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
SubjectBritish co-operative movement

Life

Tomlinson was born in Rochdale. Her parents were Elizabeth and Samuel Bamford who published the Co-operative News. She was given a liberal education at home and she attended the Manchester High School for Girls.[1] In 1904 she became the editor of her fathers paper's Woman's Section.[2] This was a prestigious role that had been created for Alice Acland on 6 January 1883. Acland went on to found the Co-operative Women's Guild.

Her gravestone

Tomlinson found her lifetime passion for the Co-operative Women's Guild when she heard their inspiring general secretary Margaret Llewelyn Davies speak. By the age of 22 she was the secretary of the guild's northern section.[1] In 1907 she published a children's journal titled Our Circle. In 1919 she became the first editor of Women's Outlook.[2]

Tomlinson stopped editing Women's Outlook[2] and died soon after in Blackpool in 1933. She was buried in her home town.[1] Her husband Charles Ernest Tomlinson, who she had married nearly 30 years before, had a gravestone made that recorded her achievements.[3]

References
  1. "Tomlinson [née Bamford], Annie (1870–1933), journalist and co-operator | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography", The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/70666
  2. Bradbury, Natalie (21 May 2013). "Womens Outlook 1919-1967". Rochdale Pioneers Museum.
  3. Flickr pic of her gravestone
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