Henriette Willemina Crommelin (7 December 1870 – 19 August 1957) was a Dutch labor leader and temperance reformer.[1] She was also a suffragist and a member of a suffrage society.[2]
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Henriette Willemina Crommelin born in Dordrecht, on 7 December 1870,[1] to Marinus Crommelin (1838-1907) and Sophia Agatha Wilhelmina Van Dielen Crommelin (1837-1919). Her older sister, Louise, died before her third birthday; she had a younger sister, Claude.[3]
She was educated by private tutors. At the age of 18, she came for a year to Westfield College, London,[1][2] where she took an abstinence pledge that was to direct her future.[1]
She returned to the Netherlands and in 1891, helped found the Utrecht branch of the Nationale Christen Geheelonthouders Vereeniging ("Dutch National Christian Temperance Federation"). She was a secretary for the Utrecht district committee, and then became a member of the Federation's executive body.[1] In 1896, Crommelin spoke for the first time in public, and her success encouraged her to continue and incited other women to follow her example.[2]
Serving as treasurer, Crommelin was a member of the Executive Committee of the Thirteenth International Congress Against Alcoholism (The Hague, 1911).[4] In September, 1920, she attended the Fifteenth International Congress Against Alcoholism, at Washington, D.C., as one of the Dutch delegates.[1]
She translated several English books on sociological and religious subjects into Dutch.[1]
Crommelin lived in Zeist, where she was an alderman.[1] She died there on 19 August 1957.[3]
References edit
- ^ a b c d e f g h Cherrington, Ernest Hurst (1925). Standard Encyclopedia of the Alcohol Problem. Vol. 2. American Issue Publishing Company. p. 732. Retrieved 15 December 2022 – via Internet Archive.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ a b c Zimmen, Frida (15 September 1910). "FOREIGN NEWS. Women Workers in Holland". Woman's Suffrage: The Common Cause of Humanity. Vol. 2, no. 75. p. 373. Retrieved 15 December 2022. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ a b "Genealogie van het geslacht Crommelin". Van Hengel & Eeltjes. 1879. p. 139.
- ^ "Thirteenth International Congress Against Alcoholism". The National Advocate. Vol. XLVI, no. 7. New York: National Temperance Society. July 1911. p. 107. Retrieved 15 December 2022. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
