Ada Nield Chew (1870 – 1945). Campaigning socialist and British suffragist.
She was one of 13 children and left school at the age of 11 to help her mother take care of the house and family.
In 1897 she married George Chew, an organiser of the Independent Labour Party. Their daughter (and only child), Doris, was born in the following year. Chew then became an organiser for the Women's Trade Union League in 1900, working alongside Mary Macarthur.
In the years leading up to the First World War, Chew became an active supporter of the movement for women's suffrage and became a member of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies. She worked for this body as an organiser from 1911 to 1914.
After the end of the war, and the achievement of women's suffrage in 1918, Chew withdrew from any major involvement in politics, but still worked to improve the working conditions, diet and health of working-class women. She retired from the business in 1930 and undertook a round-the-world tour in 1935.
- "Ada’s first public appearance was made the same year: she would have made quite an impression with her handsome look and stunning red hair." https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/lifestyle/23252373.campaign-statue-ada-nield-chew-forgotten-suffragist/
- "Ada Nield Chew was very diffident about her personal appearance, but contemporaries record that she was very good-looking, with striking red hair." https://openlearnlive-s3bucket.s3.eu
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