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Mrs Winifred Margaret Coombe Tennant (1 November 1874 – 31 August 1956) was a British suffragist, Liberal politician, philanthropist, patron of the arts and spiritualist. She and her husband settled near Swansea in South Wales, where she became an enthusiastic proponent of Welsh cultural traditions. She was also known by the bardic name "Mam o'r Nedd". ==Biography== She was born Winifred Margaret Pearce-Serocold in Britain on 1 November 1874, at Rodborough Lodge, Rodborough, Gloucestershire;〔"Winifred Coombe Tennant: A Life through Art", National Library of Wales, 2007, ISBN 978-1-86225-065-9〕 but she grew up in France and Italy. In 1895 she married Charles Coombe Tennant (1852–1928), who was 22 years older than she; and they made their home at Cadoxton Lodge, Neath. They had three sons, Christopher, Alexander, and Henry, and a daughter Daphne, but Christopher and Daphne died young. Before the First World War, Mrs Coombe Tennant became a suffragist; She was a leading figure in the campaign for women's suffrage in south Wales and became president of Neath Women's Suffrage Society. In 1914 when war broke out she was appointed deputy chairman of the Women's Agricultural Committee for Glamorgan as well as chairman of the local War Pensions Commission. She also served as director of national service for Wales. She was at pains to stress that women claimed the vote as of right and not as a reward for their war work, although she acknowledged the role the war had played in changing attitudes to women's enfranchisement. She was a leading campaigner for Lloyd George's Coalition Liberals at the general election of 1918. She became the first woman to serve as a magistrate in Glamorgan. She was a member of the executive of the Welsh National Liberal Council and of the Committee for Self Government for Wales.〔Deirdre Beddoe, ‘Tennant, Winifred Margaret Coombe (1874–1956)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, May 2005; online edn, May 2011 (accessed 25 Dec 2013 )〕 In 1922 she was nominated by David Lloyd George to be a representative at the League of Nations, becoming the first British woman to do so. She was selected as the National Liberal candidate for the Forest of Dean constituency, but lost to the Labour candidate. As a nationalist, she was heavily involved in the Eisteddfod movement, becoming Mistress of the Robes to the Gorsedd of Bards. She collected works of art; and in 1931 she became official buyer for the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery in Swansea, acquiring works by artists such as Gwen John, Kyffin Williams John Elwyn〔 Meyrick, R. ''John Elwyn'' (2000) Aldershot: Scolar Press, 2000〕 and Evan Walters. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Winifred Coombe Tennant」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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