Lady Mary Colton
Lady Mary Colton
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Mary Cutting Colton 1822 - 1898
Mary Mary (Cutting) Colton Lady of Ewick Australia was born on December 6, 1822 in London, Greater London County, England United Kingdom to Samuel Cutting and Hannah Cutting. She had siblings Alfred Cutting and Hannah Cutting. She married John Colton on December 4, 1844, and had children Alfred Cutting Colton, Bessie Colton, Edwin Blackler Colton, Frank Septimus Colton, and Ellen Hannah Colton. Mary Colton died at age 75 years old on July 28, 1898 in Adelaide, SA Australia, and was buried at West Terrace Cemetery 161 West Terrace, in Adelaide, Adelaide City Council County, SA.
Ewick Australia
December 6, 1822
London, Greater London County, England, United Kingdom
July 28, 1898
Adelaide, SA, Australia
Female
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Mary Mary (Cutting) Colton Lady's History: 1822 - 1898
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12/61822December 6, 1822BirthdateLondon, Greater London County, England United KingdomBirthplaceADVERTISEMENT BY
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Mary was a methodist. She began her philanthropy with the church's Dorcas Society, the South Adelaide Wesleyan Ladies' Working Society, and the Nursing Sisters' Association.
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Suffragist and Philanthropist. She was among a group of prominent Adelaide women who lobbied for the foundation of the Adelaide Children's Hospital and joined its Board of Management after it opened in 1879. In 1891 Colton was the first female President of the Women’s Suffrage League. Colton also served on the ladies’ committees for the Servants’ Home, which assisted new female immigrants and servants to find employment. She further supported the Female Refuge, a shelter for single pregnant girls, reformed prostitutes, victims of domestic violence and deserted wives. In 1870 and 1872, Colton joined delegations that were pressuring the South Australian government to close institutional shelters and introduce a state-sponsored adoption system. After success in 1872, Colton served on the sponsored Adoption Society committee, and then on the pioneering State Child Council, which was responsible for children cared for by licensed foster parents, in reformatories or in industrial schools. In 1883, she became treasurer and then president of the new women’s division of the Society for Social Purity, which had a successful campaign to raise the age of consent , which was 12 years old.
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Mary Colton, née Cutting, was born in London, December 1822 to Hannah and Samuel Cutting. In 1839 she emigrated to South Australia with her newly widowed father and in 1844 she married John Blackler Colton. Between 1848 and 1865 she bore nine children, several of whom died in infancy. Her husband became Mayor of Adelaide (1874-75, a Member of Parliament (1862-1887) and twice Premier of South Australia. Both of them shared a keen interest in the well-being of society. They worked together in the Benevolent and Strangers' Friend Society and in organisations for the blind, deaf and dumb. Understanding the situation for poor people in the city, Mary Colton worked to house elderly women by joining a cottage homes committee in 1871 and later, the Lady Kintore Cottage Homes Trust. She was one of the principal founders of the Adelaide Children's Hospital in 1876, an organisation she served for the rest of her life. In 1879, concerned at the problems faced by young women, she began a city club and in 1880 they were housed in the Pirie Street Wesleyan Methodist Church in Adelaide. In 1884 it expanded to become the Young Women's Christian Association affiliated with its international counterparts. She remained its president until her death. An indefatigable worker she also worked on the Boarding-Out Society with Catherine Helen Spence and others concerned with the plight of orphaned and neglected children. It was through membership with the Ladies' Committee of the Social Purity Society that Mary Colton became involved in the campaign for women's suffrage. Recognising the urgent need for suffrage after being involved in the campaign to raise the age of consent to sixteen in 1885, Mary Colton joined with Mary Lee to organise the South Australian Women's Suffrage League in July 1888. Other members included Rosetta Birks, Elizabeth Nicholls, Serena Thorne Lake, Augusta Zadow and the League was later supported by Catherine Helen Spence. In 1892, Lady Mary Colton became president of the League. As a member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union she was able to forge links with between it and the League which greatly assisted the suffrage campaign. During this incredibly busy period, she also found time for other duties, becoming foundation president of the Women's Auxiliary of Foreign Missions in 1893. Mary Colton continued her rigorous schedule of work until her illness and subsequent death on 28 July 1898.
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07/281898July 28, 1898Death dateUnknownAdelaide, SA AustraliaCause of deathDeath locationADVERTISEMENT BY
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mm/dd/yyyyFuneral dateWest Terrace Cemetery 161 West Terrace, in Adelaide, Adelaide City Council County, SA 5000, AustraliaBurial location
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