Violet Markham

Violet Rosa Markham
Violet Markham, of the National Service League, WW I
Born	1872
Died	1959 (aged 86–87)
Spouse	Lieutenant-Colonel James Carruthers
Relatives	Sir Arthur Markham, 1st Baronet (brother)

Violet Rosa Markham CH (October 1872 – 2 February 1959) was a writer, social reformer, campaigner against women's suffrage and administrator. She grew up near Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Actively involved in community and welfare work, she held a number of public positions, including in educational administration, and social assistance and poverty relief bodies. Despite her opposition to women's suffrage, she stood for election as a Liberal Party candidate in the 1918 General Election, without success, and later served as town councillor and the first female mayor of Chesterfield. Her writings on her travels and an autobiographical work, among others, were published during her lifetime. Markham married James Carruthers in 1915; he died in 1936.