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                <text>Membership form for Male Electors’ League – setting out the Object of the League and the Terms of Membership and including a slip that could have been detached and returned to Ben Elmy, indicating approval of the principle and purpose of the League.&#13;
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The Male Electors' League for Women's Suffrage was founded before mid-1897 by Ben Elmy, the partner of Elizabeth Wolstenholme. From 1904 the organisation was run by their son Frank Wolstenholme-Elmy.&#13;
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Provisional Committee listed on the form includes: C.W. Bream Pearce, Glasgow; Ben Elmy, Congleton, Cheshire; Rev Alan Greenwell, MA, Leamington; Edmund Harvey, Waterford; Walter Lewin, Bebington, Cheshire; Secretary Frank Wolstenholme Elmy, Bebington, Cheshire.</text>
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Elmy, Frank Wolstenholme&#13;
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Lewin, Walter&#13;
Male Electors' League for Women's Suffrage&#13;
Membership&#13;
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