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Türchen 2 Victoria Woodhull Martin 1838 – 1927 In 1940 Miss Zula Woodhull of Norton Park, Bredon’s Norton, left a large legacy to the Friends of Tewkesbury Abbey, enabling the purchase of Abbey Lawn House and gardens. The gift was in memory of Miss Woodhull’s mother, Victoria Woodhull Martin, a prominent and unconventional American suffragist, labour reformer and until recently, the only woman candidate for the US Presidency. The legacy stipulated that a memorial to Victoria should be placed in the abbey for the promotion of friendship between Britain and the United States. Victoria was born into poverty in Ohio and spent her early years travelling with her family’s medicine show telling fortunes and selling medicines. Married at 15 to escape her brutal father, she had two children, Zula and Byron. Sadly, her husband was an alcoholic and philanderer and Victoria divorced him, later marrying Colonel James H. Blood, who introduced her to a number of 19th century reform movements. After meeting the wealthy railway magnate, Cornelius Vanderbilt, through a mutual interest in spiritualism, Victoria and her sister set up as stockbrokers in New York. Profits from the business enabled them to publish women’s rights and reform magazine. Woodhull became an accomplished public speaker and was nominated for the Presidency by the Equal Rights Party. Her scandalous behaviour proved too much for some and eventually she sailed to England with her sister and met a wealthy English banker John Biddulph Martin, whom she eventually married. She devoted her later years to running a new newspaper and preserving the English home of George Washington’s ancestors. She became an automobile enthusiast, donated money and services to various causes around Tewkesbury, founded a short-lived agricultural college and volunteered with the Red Cross during World War I.
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Türchen 1 Tewkesbury Bread Riots (24th June 1795) Esther Macmaster(21), Mary Aldridge(16), Sarah Kinson(16) Ann Mayall, née Kings(22),and Happy Fielder(19) The winter of 1794/95, 5 years after the French revolution, was exceptionally harsh: January temperatures averaged at -3,1°C and heavy flooding of the rivers Severn and Avon hit Tewkesbury in February. There was already a lack of wheat, due to bad harvests in hot and dry 1794. Supplying the army and navy, who were fighting the French, diminished the stocks further. By summer 1795 the price of bread had doubled. Moreover, corn merchants and millers speculated with grain, hoarding it and selling it at a higher price elsewhere. This resulted in bread riots throughout England. On the 25th June, a day after the Tewkesbury riot, the Town Clerk wrote to the Home Secretary: .."Several Quantities of Wheaten flour were forcibly taken out of the barges at the Quay & carried off by divers Persons, chiefly Females- the civil force was convened with all possible Dispatch, & after much difficulty and confusion, the Riot was suppressed, & the ringleaders committed to the county rather than the Borough Goal, as most secure……" Esther Macmaster(21), Mary Aldridge(16), Sarah Kinson(16) Ann Mayall, née Kings(22),and Happy Fielder(19) were arrested and sentenced to six months imprisonment in Gloucester Goal. The women were 5 of about 200 people, recognized by the witnesses for ‘asking, where the barge was going', 'being active in the crowd', 'taking flour from the sacks and taking it away in their aprons’. They had to serve their full sentence, in spite of an intercession by the local Parish Priest and a petition by a prospective MP. They were fortunate to be incarcerated in the modern new goal in Gloucester, which supplied them with a cell of their own and food. In many other parts of the country male and female rioters were sentenced to death by hanging. After being discharged from the goal, they probably lived a rather ordinary life as they are only mentioned in local records for their marriages, baptisms and the deaths of their children. You'll find more details on the website of The Tewkesbury Historical Society: https://tewkesburyhistory.org/The-Tewkesbury-Bread-Riot-of-1795
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2 Victoria Woodhull Martin 1838 – 1927

In 1940 Miss Zula Woodhull of Norton Park, Bredon’s Norton, left a large legacy to the Friends of Tewkesbury Abbey, enabling the purchase of Abbey Lawn House and gardens. The gift was in memory of Miss Woodhull’s mother, Victoria Woodhull Martin, a prominent and unconventional American suffragist, labour reformer and until recently, the only woman candidate for the US Presidency. The legacy stipulated that a memorial to Victoria should be placed in the abbey for the promotion of friendship between Britain and the United States. Victoria was born into poverty in Ohio and spent her early years travelling with her family’s medicine show telling fortunes and selling medicines. Married at 15 to escape her brutal father, she had two children, Zula and Byron. Sadly, her husband was an alcoholic and philanderer and Victoria divorced him, later marrying Colonel James H. Blood, who introduced her to a number of 19th century reform movements. After meeting the wealthy railway magnate, Cornelius Vanderbilt, through a mutual interest in spiritualism, Victoria and her sister set up as stockbrokers in New York. Profits from the business enabled them to publish women’s rights and reform magazine. Woodhull became an accomplished public speaker and was nominated for the Presidency by the Equal Rights Party. Her scandalous behaviour proved too much for some and eventually she sailed to England with her sister and met a wealthy English banker John Biddulph Martin, whom she eventually married. She devoted her later years to running a new newspaper and preserving the English home of George Washington’s ancestors. She became an automobile enthusiast, donated money and services to various causes around Tewkesbury, founded a short-lived agricultural college and volunteered with the Red Cross during World War I.

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Türchen 1
4-03-2022
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 Tewkesbury Bread Riots (24th June 1795)
Esther Macmaster(21), Mary Aldridge(16), Sarah Kinson(16) Ann Mayall, née Kings(22),and Happy Fielder(19)

The winter of 1794/95, 5 years after the French revolution, was exceptionally harsh: January temperatures averaged at -3,1°C and heavy flooding of the rivers Severn and Avon hit Tewkesbury in February. There was already a lack of wheat, due to bad harvests in hot and dry 1794. Supplying the army and navy, who were fighting the French, diminished the stocks further. By summer 1795 the price of bread had doubled. Moreover, corn merchants and millers speculated with grain, hoarding it and selling it at a higher price elsewhere. This resulted in bread riots throughout England.

On the 25th June, a day after the Tewkesbury riot, the Town Clerk wrote to the Home Secretary: .."Several Quantities of Wheaten flour were forcibly taken out of the barges at the Quay & carried off by divers Persons, chiefly Females- the civil force was convened with all possible Dispatch, & after much difficulty and confusion, the Riot was suppressed, & the ringleaders committed to the county rather than the Borough Goal, as most secure……"
Esther Macmaster(21), Mary Aldridge(16), Sarah Kinson(16) Ann Mayall, née Kings(22),and Happy Fielder(19) were arrested and sentenced to six months imprisonment in Gloucester Goal.
The women were 5 of about 200 people, recognized by the witnesses for ‘asking, where the barge was going', 'being active in the crowd', 'taking flour from the sacks and taking it away in their aprons’.
They had to serve their full sentence, in spite of an intercession by the local Parish Priest and a petition by a prospective MP. They were fortunate to be incarcerated in the modern new goal in Gloucester, which supplied them with a cell of their own and food. In many other parts of the country male and female rioters were sentenced to death by hanging.

After being discharged from the goal, they probably lived a rather ordinary life as they are only mentioned in local records for their marriages, baptisms and the deaths of their children.

You'll find more details on the website of The Tewkesbury Historical Society: https://tewkesburyhistory.org/The-Tewkesbury-Bread-Riot-of-1795
Türchen 2
5-03-2022
2
 Victoria Woodhull Martin 1838 – 1927

In 1940 Miss Zula Woodhull of Norton Park, Bredon’s Norton, left a large legacy to the Friends of Tewkesbury Abbey, enabling the purchase of Abbey Lawn House and gardens. The gift was in memory of Miss Woodhull’s mother, Victoria Woodhull Martin, a prominent and unconventional American suffragist, labour reformer and until recently, the only woman candidate for the US Presidency. The legacy stipulated that a memorial to Victoria should be placed in the abbey for the promotion of friendship between Britain and the United States. Victoria was born into poverty in Ohio and spent her early years travelling with her family’s medicine show telling fortunes and selling medicines. Married at 15 to escape her brutal father, she had two children, Zula and Byron. Sadly, her husband was an alcoholic and philanderer and Victoria divorced him, later marrying Colonel James H. Blood, who introduced her to a number of 19th century reform movements. After meeting the wealthy railway magnate, Cornelius Vanderbilt, through a mutual interest in spiritualism, Victoria and her sister set up as stockbrokers in New York. Profits from the business enabled them to publish women’s rights and reform magazine. Woodhull became an accomplished public speaker and was nominated for the Presidency by the Equal Rights Party. Her scandalous behaviour proved too much for some and eventually she sailed to England with her sister and met a wealthy English banker John Biddulph Martin, whom she eventually married. She devoted her later years to running a new newspaper and preserving the English home of George Washington’s ancestors. She became an automobile enthusiast, donated money and services to various causes around Tewkesbury, founded a short-lived agricultural college and volunteered with the Red Cross during World War I.

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