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	Kate Sheppard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sheppard was born in Liverpool, England, to Scottish parents.
		Sheppard's involvement arose primarily from her religious beliefs, which she had inherited from her mother.
		Sheppard herself was widely acknowledged as the leader of the women's suffrage movement.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kate_Sheppard (752 words)

	Kate Sheppard Midwifery - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Kate Malcolm Sheppard (1847-1934) was one of the pioneers of the womens' movement in New Zealand.
		Kate Sheppard is recognized as the key figure in the suffrage movement in New Zealand - the first country in the world to grant universal adult suffrage to men and women equally.
		Kate Sheppard, as a result of her success in NZ became a world figure for the international womens' movement and toured America and Britain speaking to women to inspire their own suffrage movements.
	www.ksmidwifery.co.nz /biography.shtml (601 words)

	Biography / New Zeland / Kate Sheppard
		Sheppard advocated equality between the partners in marriage and argued for women to be able to play a full role in society, one befitting the expression of their talents and abilities.
		Sheppard expressed her interests in a broad range of issues affecting women, the advantages of contraception, the rights of divorce, the equal rights to guardian-ship of children, and clothing that did not crush internal organs.
		Sheppard was pragmatic in response, expressing the opinion that her campaigners had succeeded through years of tireless and unmitigated work, and because of New Zealand’s colonial beginnings – it was a kind of ‘political experiment’.
	www.polymernotes.org /biographies/NZL_bio_sheppard.htm (3018 words)

	DNZB / BIOGRAPHY
		Kate Sheppard emphasised that the franchise department of the WCTU was anxious for all women of all classes to enrol.
		Kate Sheppard had never advocated a separationist policy, and the loss of her influence meant, perhaps, that the crucial moment for women's complete political equality was also lost.
		Kate Sheppard was unable to attend the first conference of the revived council in Wellington in 1919, but her address, written in her capacity as founding president, was read for her.
	www.dnzb.govt.nz /dnzb/Essay_Body.asp?PersonEssay=2S20&related=false (2123 words)

	Kate Sheppard: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Sheppard was born in Liverpool (Liverpool: A large city in northwestern England; its port is the country's major outlet for industrial exports), England (England: A division of the United Kingdom), to Scottish parents.
		In 1868, several years after the death of her father, Sheppard was brought by her mother to Christchurch (Christchurch: Industrial city at the center of a rich agricultural region), Three years later, she married Walter Allen Sheppard, and adopted his surname.
		In 1885, Sheppard became involved in establishing the New Zealand Women's Christian Temperance Union, part of the larger temperance movement (temperance movement: the temperance movement (see definition of temperance) was a movement in support of total...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/kate_sheppard (770 words)

	Kate Sheppard
		Kate and Isobel both took up cycling seeing this activity as one where women were on an equal footing with men.
		In her position as Franchise Superintendent Kate devoted herself to this cause and became a skilful organiser, public speaker, diplomat and writer.
		Kate's work was ridiculed and heavily criticised but she was determined and undaunted by the reactions of those around her.
	www.lairweb.org.nz /zealand/famous/sheppard.html (741 words)

	Celebrating Women - Christchurch, New Zealand
		Kate Sheppard Memorial Award Trust was set up to establish an annual award to provide an opportunity for a woman to develop her potential by undertaking further education, study, research or training in areas which are of value in the community of New Zealand.
		The Kate Sheppard Memorial Award Trust was set up to establish an annual award which would provide an opportunity for a woman holding New Zealand citizenship or permanent residency to: “develop her potential by undertaking further education, study, research or training in areas which are of value in the community of New Zealand”.
		The Kate Sheppard Memorial Award is awarded from the balance of funds publicly raised for the Kate Sheppard National Memorial to Women’s Suffrage, unveiled in Christchurch in 1993.
	www.christchurch.org.nz /women (2422 words)

	Kate Sheppard and Votes for Women! - Early Christchurch - Heritage - Christchurch City Libraries
		Kate married Walter Allen Sheppard, a storekeeper and Christchurch City councillor, on 21 July 1871, when she was 24 years old.
		Despite the defeat of the suffrage bills in Parliament in 1888, 1891 and 1892, Kate continued the campaign for the vote, using public meetings and letters to the newspapers to gather support.
		Kate believed women should take part in society and politics, rather than stay in the home and she believed that woman could not make any of the changes needed in society without first winning the right to vote.
	library.christchurch.org.nz /Childrens/EarlyChristchurch/KateSheppard.asp (549 words)

	Kate Sheppard Midwifery - Midwives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Kate Sheppard began in January 2000 with the aim of providing excellence in maternity and birthing care.
		Kate Sheppard works in a team environment working in conjunction with family doctors, specialists and individuals to bring a memorable birthing experience.
		Kate Sheppard provides a totally free care service and is funded by the New Zealand government.
	www.ksmidwifery.co.nz (249 words)

	Kate Sheppard National Memorial - Public Art In Central Christchurch - Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Kate Sheppard (1848-1934), was a strong advocate for equal rights for women.
		Sheppard became a member of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, and took up national office as the superintendent of its franchise department in 1887.
		It was due to the efforts of Kate Sheppard and the campaign she led that on 19 September, 1893 the Electoral Bill giving women the right to vote received the Governor's assent.
	www.christchurchartgallery.org.nz /Resources/PublicSculpture/KateSheppardNationalMemorial (399 words)

	Celebrating Women's Suffrage 106 Years On - women's suffrage, votes for women, New Zealand women's suffrage, Kate ...
		Kate Edger graduated B.A. from the University of New Zealand in 1877, the first female university graduate in New Zealand, and the first woman to gain a Bachelor of Arts degree in the British Empire.
		Kate Sheppard, a remarkably intelligent and well educated immigrant from Britain, became the leader of the group in the WCTU involved in political campaigning.
		Kate Sheppard (born Catherine Malcolm) was married to a Christchurch business man older than she was.
	www.nzine.co.nz /features/suffrage2.html (2094 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Sheppard Kate
		Sheppard, Kate (1847-1934), New Zealand social and political activist, a leader in the campaign for women’s suffrage and the temperance movement....
		Greenaway, Kate (1846-1901), English watercolourist and illustrator, born in London, and trained at the Slade School of Art.
		Winslet, Kate (1975-), leading British screen actress who became a major Hollywood star in her early 20s.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Sheppard_Kate.html (97 words)

	Kate Sheppard and Woman Suffrage in New ZealandWomen's History Month 2003 by Sunshine for Women
		Kate Malcolm Wilson Sheppard, wife of Christchurch business man and councillor, Walter Sheppard, lead the Union's remarkably short suffrage campaigns from its start in February 1887 to its finish in September 1893.
		Born Kate Malcolm, at Islay, Scotland, she emigrated to NZ in 1848 and married Sheppard in the late '60s.
		WCTU National Franchise Superintendent Sheppard was further politicized in her first year at the WCTU when she observed petitions for the protection of women and children which she had so assiduously organized being tossed aside by the Petitions Committee in Parliament.
	www.pinn.net /~sunshine/whm2003/new_zealand2.html (1883 words)

	Aristotle - Our Heroes
		Kate Sheppard, (1847 – 1934), was New Zealand’s suffragist leader and figurehead who inspired campaigners for equality throughout the world.
		It is thanks to Kate Sheppard’s unstinting commitment to the campaign for women’s suffrage that New Zealand was the first country in the world to give women the vote.
		Kate Sheppard is our hero for many reasons, amongst them her commitment to equality, her great leadership and her ability to campaign for change without making enemies of her opposition.
	www.aristotle.co.nz /aboutUs/heroes.aspx (1652 words)

	Maud Pember Reeves - suffragist and socialist
		Those who were interested in the political rights of women, under their leader Kate Sheppard, began to work for the vote for women.
		Kate, fortunately, realised that in Christchurch there was a lot of support for women's suffrage from people in the liberal political tradition, like Maud Reeves, who did not support the temperance lobby.
		Kate Sheppard was also in England that year and met with suffrage leaders there.
	www.nzine.co.nz /features/pember_reeves.html (2166 words)

	Brief history - NZ Women and the Vote - NZHistory.net.nz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The franchise and legislation department headed the suffrage campaign, and in Kate Sheppard, from 1887, it found an ideal leader: a woman without sectarian narrowness, characterised by judgement, tolerance and charm.
		Kate Sheppard found an invaluable ally in the courteous and punctilious John Hall, who led the pro-suffrage group in Parliament and supported the women suffragists outside.
		Seddon telegraphed Kate Sheppard to tell her the governor had signed the bill that gave New Zealand women the vote.
	www.nzhistory.net.nz /politics/suffrage-briefhistory (3094 words)

	nzgirl - Kate Sheppard's Story
		Catherine Wilson Malcolm was born in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, probably on 10 March 1847, the daughter of Scottish parents Jemima Crawford Souter and her husband, Andrew Wilson Malcolm, a clerk.
		Kate Sheppard was motivated by humanitarian principles and a strong sense of justice:
		At Christchurch on 15 August 1925, aged 78, Kate Sheppard married William Sidney Lovell-Smith, a 72-year-old printer and author of Outlines of the women's franchise movement in New Zealand; he died four years later.
	www.nzgirl.co.nz /articles/5380 (2171 words)

	Kate Sheppard- Fighting the good fight (Part 1)
		It is not known exactly when her father died, but when he did he left his widow five children to support, and probably only her own family to rely on.
		When Kate’s elder sister Marie immigrated with her husband to Christchurch, New Zealand, Jemima Malcolm took the plunge and bought her whole family to be with her.
		In 1869 Kate stepped ashore in the city that would be the home to her for the rest of her life.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/new_zealand_history/29392 (576 words)

	Prime Minister Bolger - NCW Conference Speech
		It was inevitable that the NCW would be a force to be reckoned with when they elected Kate Sheppard as their first President.
		Kate was a politician - in the finest sense of that word.
		In seeking to advance the status of New Zealand women the NCW has pursued Kate Sheppard's dream in a manner which she would have viewed with approval and pride.
	www.executive.govt.nz /93-96/minister/pm/pms1909.htm (676 words)

	Orvis School of Nursing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Kate Sheppard, a May 2004 MSN graduate of UNR, has been accepted to the University of Arizona’s PhD in Nursing program for Fall, 2004!
		The graduate faculty who closely mentored Kate, Dr. Ann Hubbert, describes Kate as an outstanding graduate student who has tremendous potential as a researcher and future nursing educator.
		Kate’s goal is to become a nursing professor upon completion of her PhD program.
	www.unr.edu /OSN/msn/announcements/kate_sheppard.html (100 words)

	New Zealand: First to Have Women Vote
		of the first leaders of the New Zealand women's vote movement was Kate Sheppard, who also was a leader of the WCTU.
		Sir John Hall was one of Sheppard's strongest champions, keeping the issue in front of Parliament for many years.
		By this time, Kate Sheppard's friend John Hall was head of the government.
	www.socialstudiesforkids.com /articles/worldhistory/womenvotenz2.htm (343 words)

	TKI - template
		Kate Edger was the first female university graduate in New Zealand in 1877.
		Kate Sheppard headed the WCTU's legislation and franchise department from 1887.
		The New Zealand Edge site has a profile of Kate Sheppard (www.nzedge.com/heroes/sheppard.html) which includes extensive information about the moves to gain women the vote and what happened afterward.
	www.tki.org.nz /r/hot_topics/suffrage_e.php (1241 words)

	The University of Waikato
		Kate Sheppard was the inspirational leader of the women's suffragist movement, which ensured that New Zealand was the first country in the world to introduce universal suffrage for men and women equally.
		Kate Sheppard's commitment to challenging the sexual status quo continues to inspire our female leaders.
		Jean Batten and her mother were strongly influenced by Kate Sheppard's suffragettes.
	unipr.waikato.ac.nz /campaigns/index.shtml (1969 words)

	History of the National Council of Women of New Zealand
		The legal profession was opened to women, husbands were required to provide for their wives in their wills and technical schools were to be established throughout the country.
		Kate Sheppard led a delegation to Prime Minister Seddon to urge women's rights to sit in parliament, serve as justices of the peace and receive equal pay for equal work.
		But he told them that women were physically weaker than men, they were too emotional to be justices of the peace and they did not need equal pay because they would be cared for financially by their husbands.
	www.ncwnz.co.nz /history.htm (2225 words)

	Puke Ariki - Taranaki Stories - What a Difference a Century Makes
		The NCW was formed in 1896, three years after suffragette Kate Sheppard led women to getting the vote.
		Suffragette Kate Sheppard is seated in the middle, fifth from left.
		Kate Sheppard: Believed women needed more than just the vote.
	www.pukeariki.com /en/stories/leadingwomen/whatadifference.asp (988 words)

	The Second Hand - If The World Were Like Jersey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Kate Sheppard is journalism and politics double major at Ithaca College, but she really just wants to make comics and travel.
		She possesses the ability to wiggle her right ear and thinks broccoli pizza at room temperature is the greatest thing since sliced bread.
		In her spare time, Kate reads the AP Stylebook and is the mama of 31 guppies.
	home.comcast.net /~jmessall/ksold.htm (186 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		KATE SHEPPARD MEMORIAL AWARD TRUST APPLICATION GUIDELINES The Kate Sheppard Memorial Award is awarded from the balance of funds publicly raised for the Kate Sheppard National Memorial to Women’s Suffrage, unveiled in Christchurch in 1993.
		Conditions The Award shall be made annually unless in any one year the Trust deems that none of the applicants merits an Award.
		The Kate Sheppard Memorial Award this year will be $2,000.
	www.aut.ac.nz /student_services/scholarships/docs/k_sheppard_schols_application_2005.doc (699 words)

	Frontier of Dreams Learning Environment
		It includes information about Kate Sheppard who was instrumental in getting the vote for women.
		As a result of Kate Sheppard's work New Zealand became the first country in which all women could exercise the right to vote.
		Kate Sheppard was a source of inspiration to suffragists, both in New Zealand and throughout the world.
	www.cwa.co.nz /frontierofdreams/episode07.html (2993 words)

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