Charlotte Price White
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1873
Charlotte Price White | |
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| Born | Charlotte Bell 1873 Briggart, Scotland |
| Died | 1932 (aged 58–59) Bangor, Wales |
| Known for | Suffragist; local councillor |
Charlotte Price White (1873 - 1932) was a leading member of the North Wales Suffragist movement, local councillor and among the first British members of the Women's Institute.
Charlotte Bell was born in Briggart near Dumfries in Scotland in 1873. In the 1890s she was among the first women to train as science teachers at University College of North Wales, Bangor.[1] Her first teaching post was in London. On 12 August 1902 she married Price Foulkes White. They lived in Bangor where she remained for the rest of her life.[2]: 54, 55 They had two children, Margaret and David Archibald.
She died suddenly in 1932, and her funeral was a public event.[2] Flags were flown at half-mast and there were over 100 floral tributes at the service in the English Presbyterian Chapel.[1]