Janetta Mary Ornsby

Janetta Isabel Mary Ornsby (1871-1954) was a British suffragist and one of the founders of the Women's Engineering Society.[1]

Janetta Mary Ornsby
Born
Janet Isabel Mary Palmer

1871
Dalkeith
Died1954
Edinburgh
Women’s Engineering Society formed by these seven signatures in 1919

Early life

Born Janet Isabel Mary Palmer, her parents were Reverend Albert Reynolds Palmer of Dalkieth and Margaret Anne Macfarlane (1839-93). She was the granddaughter of Dr. MacFarlane, also of Dalkieth, and had three siblings, Ethel who undertook medical training at the University of Edinburgh, Charles (an architect) and Brien (a minister in Australia).[2]

Marriage

In 1896, Janet Palmer married Robert Embleton Ornsby (1856-1920),[2] agent to the Seaton Delaval Coal Company[3] and author of the memoirs of James Robert Hope Scott in 1884.[4] Due to her husband's ill health, she often addressed coalminers and coal owners in his absence.[5]

Women's Engineering Society

Janet Ornsby was involved in the women's suffrage movement and was one of the seven signatories on the founding documents for the Women's Engineering Society in 1919, alongside Lady Katharine Parsons, her daughter Rachel Parsons, Lady Margaret Moir, Laura Annie Willson, Eleanor Shelley-Rolls and Margaret Rowbotham. She was elected to the WES Council at the first AGM on 19th May 1920.[6]

She died in Edinburgh in 1954.[2]

References
  1. Koerner, Emily Rees (7 August 2019). "Who launched the Women's Engineering Society in 1919?". Electrifying Women. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
  2. womenengineerssite (2020-12-25). "The Fourth Signatory". women engineers' history. Retrieved 2023-03-14.
  3. "Durham Mining Museum - Robert Embleton Ornsby". www.dmm.org.uk. Retrieved 2023-03-14.
  4. Ornsby, Robert (1884). Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott of Abbotsford: With Selections from His Correspondence. J. Murray.
  5. Henrietta Heald (19 September 2019). "FIVE. Seeds of Revolution.". Magnificent Women and their Revolutionary Machines. Unbound Publishing. p. 65. ISBN 978-1-78352-679-6. OCLC 1129583128.
  6. "The Woman Engineer, Vol 1". twej.theiet.org. 1920. Retrieved 2023-03-14.
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