Annie Coultate

Annie Coultate (née de Lacy, c. 1856 - 1931) was a teacher and leading suffragist in York, England.

[2] She trained as a pupil-teacher and was later employed as assistant head mistress[3] at Fishergate Elementary School in York.

[5] Coultate became involved in campaigning for women's enfranchisement after being inspired by a talk given by Emmeline Pankhurst in York during 1908.

[6] She founded the local Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) branch in York during 1910, when she was 55 years old.

[8] Her activism included selling the Votes for Women newspaper from door to door around York,[9] organising the local suffragette boycott of the 1911 census with Violet Key Jones,[3][5][10] and helping Lilian Lenton escape house arrest during her release from prison under the Cat and Mouse Act.