Atkinson, Lily May, 1866-1921

found: Te Ara WWW site, viewed on August 15, 2017:Atkinson, Lily May page (Atkinson, Lily May; temperance campaigner, suffragist, feminist; Lily May Kirk was born at Auckland, New Zealand, on 29 March 1866; joined the Women's Christian Temperance Union shortly after its inception in New Zealand in 1885; held a variety of offices within the WCTU: dominion recording secretary (1887-1901), president of the Wellington branch (1896), and dominion president (1901-6); a popular speaker; belonged to the Plunket Society, the Kindergarten Schools Society and the New Zealand Society for the Protection of Women and Children, of which she was president from 1903 to 1911 and vice president thereafter until her death on 19 July 1921, aged 55)