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Margaret Cousins (Margaret Elizabeth Gillespie) was born on 17 November, 1878 in Boyle, County Roscommon, Ireland, is a Margaret Elizabeth Cousins was Irish educationist, suffragist. Discover Margaret Cousins's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 76 years old?

Popular As Margaret Elizabeth Gillespie
Occupation Theosophist, educationist, suffragist, writer
Age 76 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 17 November, 1905
Birthday 17 November
Birthplace Boyle, County Roscommon, Ireland
Date of death 1954
Died Place Adyar, Madras, India (now Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India)
Nationality Ireland

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1878

Margaret Elizabeth Cousins (née Gillespie, also known as Gretta Cousins; 7 November 1878 – 11 March 1954) was an Irish-Indian educationist, suffragist and Theosophist, who established All India Women's Conference (AIWC) in 1927.

1902

She studied music at the Royal University of Ireland in Dublin, graduating in 1902, and became a teacher.

1903

As a student she had met the poet and literary critic James Cousins, and she married him in 1903.

The pair explored socialism, vegetarianism, and psychical research together.

1906

In 1906, after attending a National Conference of Women meeting in Manchester, Cousins joined the Irish branch of the NCW.

1907

In 1907 she and her husband attended the London Convention of the Theosophical Society, and she made contacts with suffragettes, vegetarians, anti-vivisectionists, and occultists in London.

Cousins was a vegetarian and was a speaker for the Vegetarian Society in 1907.

She was also involved with the Irish Vegetarian Society.

1908

Cousins co-founded the Irish Women's Franchise League with Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington in 1908, serving as its first treasurer.

1910

In 1910 she was one of six Dublin women attending the Parliament of Women, which attempted to march to the House of Commons to hand a resolution to the Prime Minister.

After 119 women marching to the House of Commons had been arrested, 50 requiring medical treatment, the women decided to break the windows of the houses of Cabinet Ministers.

Cousins was arrested and sentenced to a month in Holloway Prison.

1912

Vacationing with W. B. Yeats in 1912, Cousins and her husband heard Yeats read translations of poems by Rabindranath Tagore.

1913

In 1913, breaking the windows of Dublin Castle on the reading of the Second Home Rule Bill, Cousins and other suffragists were arrested and sentenced to one month in Tullamore Jail.

The women demanded to be treated as political prisoners, and went on hunger strike to achieve release.

In 1913, she and her husband moved to Liverpool, where James Cousins worked in a vegetarian food factory.

1915

She was the wife of poet and literary critic James Cousins, with whom she moved to India in 1915.

In 1915 they moved to India.

James Cousins initially worked for New India, the newspaper founded by Annie Besant; after Besant was forced to dismiss him for an article praising the Easter Uprising, she appointed him Vice-Principal of the new Madanapalle College, where Margaret taught English.

1916

In 1916, she became the first non-Indian member of the Indian Women's University at Poona.

1917

In 1917 Cousins co-founded the Women's Indian Association with Annie Besant and Dorothy Jinarajadasa.

She edited the WIA's journal, Stri Dharma.

1919

She is credited with preserving the tune of the Indian National Anthem Jana Gana Mana based on the notes provided by Tagore himself in February 1919, during Rabindranath Tagore's visit to the Madanapalle College.

In 1919–20 Cousins was the first Head of the National Girls' School at Mangalore.

1922

In 1922, she became the first woman magistrate in India.

1927

In 1927, she co-founded the All India Women's Conference, serving as its President in 1936.

1930

By the late 1930s she felt conscious of the need to give way to indigenous Indian feminists:

"I longed to be in the struggle, but I had the feeling that direct participation by me was no longer required, or even desired by the leaders of India womanhood who were now coming to the front."

She was a member of the Flag Presentation Committee, which was a committee of 74 Indian women led by Hansa Mehta at the Constituent Assembly.

1932

In 1932, she was arrested and jailed for speaking against the Emergency Measures.

1944

A stroke left Cousins paralysed from 1944 onwards.

She received financial support from the Madras government, and later Jawaharlal Nehru, in recognition of her services to India.

1947

She was a member of the Flag Presentation Committee which presented the National Flag to the Constituent Assembly on 14 August 1947.

Margaret Gillespie, from an Irish Protestant family, was born at Boyle, County Roscommon, and educated locally and in Derry.

The committee presented the National Flag of India on behalf of the women of India to the House on 14 August 1947.

1954

She died in 1954.

Her manuscripts are dispersed in various collections across the world.