Also pictured is Gertrude Margaret Lenwood (nee Wilson) (1876-1971).

Pictured on Easter Monday 1941 outside Moorgate, Dore, home of Oliver Charles Wilson (1867-1946).

Features: Gertrude Margaret Lenwood (nee Wilson) (1876-1971) (standing on the left) and Oliver Charles Wilson (1867-1946) (standing on the right); seated left to right: Alexander Cowan Wilson (1866-1955), Cecil Henry Wilson (1862-1945) and Dr Helen Mary Wilson (1864-1951)

The subjects are as follows:

Gertrude Margaret Lenwood (1876-1971):

Gertrude Margaret Lenwood (nee Wilson) was born in Sheffield in 1876. She was educated at Sheffield High School and Girton College, Cambridge. She married Rev. Frank Lenwood (1874-1934) after which she lived in Oxford where she became treasurer of the Oxford Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA).

In 1907-1908, Rev. and Mrs Lenwood visited China and India and operated as missionaries for three years in Benares [Varanasi, India]. In 1926, Frank Lenwood became minister of Greengate Congregational Church and they went to live in Plaistow. Here Gertrude became President of the Women's Total Abstinence Branch for two years, President of the Women's League (Congregational) for the Metropolitan Essex District and Chair of the Children's Country Holiday Fund for Canning Town. In 1934, she became a Deacon at Plaistow Congregational Church. She also served as a Director of the London Missionary Society and was elected President of the Women's League of the London Congregational Union in 1937.

Oliver Charles Wilson (1867-1946):

Oliver Charles Wilson was born in Rotherham in 1867. He joined the Sheffield Smelting Company in 1885 and became Director in 1896 and later Chairman in 1915.

He was a member of the Sheffield City Council from 1906-1925, becoming Chairman of the Health Committee and the Food Control Committee and serving as Lord Mayor, 1914-1915. He was involved in the temperance movement and became President of the Sheffield Band of Hope Union. He was also Honorary Secretary and Chairman of the Brightside Liberal Association and Chairman of the Executive of the Sheffield Liberal Federation and the North East Derbyshire Liberal Association. He was also Chairman of the Croft House Settlement in Sheffield.

He married Mary Dorothea Cooper in 1898 and the couple had five children: Joan, Donald, Peggy, Molly and Jack.

Alexander Cowan Wilson (1866-1955):

Alexander Cowan Wilson was a civil engineer born in Mansfield Woodhouse in 1866. He was educated in Sheffield and Scarborough and apprenticed as an engineer in Hull and Leeds. After spending a year in South Africa, he went to India and acted as Secretary to his father Henry J. Wilson (1833-1914), Liberal MP for Holmfirth, who was then in India as a member of the Royal Commission on Opium. On his return to England, he worked for 15 years for the Great Central Railway near Leicester and was then involved in dock construction in Liverpool and Birkenhead.

From 1908-1916, he served on the Birkenhead Town Council as a Liberal. He joined the Society of Friends in 1899 and took part in Adult School work for many years. During the First World War, he supported the cause of conscientious objectors. He also served as a Quaker Chaplain to several prisons and was on the National Committee of the No Conscription Fellowship. From 1916-1927, he worked for the Society of Friends in Manchester and served on Committees for peace, prison reform and moral hygiene, etc. He later served on Executive Committees of various Societies including at Friends' House, the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene and the Anti-Slavery Society. He became Chairman of the Friends' Committee for the Protection of Native Races and Treasurer of the Indian Conciliation Group and of the Society for the Liberation of Religion from State Patronage and Control.

He married Edith Brayshaw in 1902 and they had four children.

Cecil Henry Wilson (1862-1945):

Cecil Henry Wilson was born in Mansfield Woodhouse in 1862. He was educated at the Friends' School, Kendal, and the Wesley College Sheffield, before going on to study at Manchester University. He worked for the Sheffield Smelting Company 1844-1922 and was Chairman there for many years.

He was a longstanding member of Sheffield City Council from 1903-1924 where he chaired the Watch Committee and Highways Committee at certain intervals. He was appointed a Magistrate in 1907 and chaired the Licensing Committee.

He served as Labour MP for Attercliffe from 1922-1931 and 1935-1944. He was presented with the Honorary Freedom of Sheffield in 1929. He was member of the Executive of the Parliamentary Labour Party and of the Selection Committee 1929-1931. In 1931, he declined the offer of a knighthood.

Outside of politics, Cecil Henry Wilson was President of the Attercliffe Friends' Adult School, 1884-1886. At Zion Congregational Church, Attercliffe, he was leader of the Men's Morning Bible Class, 1896-1919, and a Sunday School teacher and superintendent, 1919-1922. He joined the Society of Friends in 1934 and was also involved in the temperance movement, becoming a member of the Executive of the Workers' Temperance League.

In 1915, he became a pacifist and supported the cause of conscientious objectors during the First World War. In 1936, he became Convenor of the Parliamentary Pacifist Group.

He was twice married, firstly to Sarah Catherine Turner in 1890, having one son through this marriage, and then, following his first wife's death in 1909, he married Grace Satchwell in 1912.

Dr Helen Mary Wilson (1864-1951):

Dr Helen Mary Wilson was a physician born in Mansfield Woodhouse in 1864. She was educated at Sheffield High School and later Bedford College (London) before studying at the London School of Medicine for Women. She undertook private medical practice in Sheffield, 1895-1905, and became Medical Examiner to the Sheffield Girls' High School and the Pupil Teacher Centre.

In 1920, she was appointed as one of the first intake of female magistrates in Sheffield and served on the Probation Committee and Juvenile Court Panel. She also helped found the Rutland Hall Settlement in Sheffield in 1896 and became Honorary Secretary and later President of the Settlement. She was also President of the Rutland Hall Women's Adult School.

From 1908-1914, she was an active member of the Women’s Suffrage Movement (non-militant), serving as Honorary Secretary and later President of the Sheffield Women's Suffrage Society. In 1910, she became Honorary Secretary of the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene (then known as the 'British Committee') and editor of 'The Shield'. She was later President of the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene. She was also a member and lecturer for the British Social Hygiene Council, 1915-1918, and served on the Committee of the International Abolitionist Federation.

During the First World War, she was Chair of the Women's Training Colony Committee, 1915-1919, which she helped to found. She also became Chair of the Howard Street Club, Sheffield (a dinner club for working women) and founder and President of the Water Lily Swimming Club. She also served on local branches of the National Council of Women, League of Nations Union and the Peace Pledge Union.

Original at Sheffield City Archives: MD2459/1/22/7 (alt. ref. MD2480/7).