Conservation Plan Addington Cemetery - Christchurch City Libraries

ROW F No. 422a
MALCOLM / SHEPPARD
Conservation Plan for Addington Cemetery
Malcolm‐Shepherd Headstone
Jemima Malcolm (1822‐1881) and her daughter, Katherine Wilson Lovell‐Smith (1848‐1934)
formerly Kate Sheppard.
Kate Sheppard was born Katherine Wilson Malcolm at Liverpool in 1848. She came to
Canterbury with her siblings and widowed mother on the Matoaka in 1869. A member of
the Congregational Church, she married Walter Allen Sheppard, grocer and general
merchant on 21 July 1871. A son, Douglas, was born in 1880.
In 1887 Kate became national superintendent of the Franchise and Legislation Department
of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. Three petitions for votes‐for‐women were
presented to Parliament by conservative politician Sir John Hall. Nine thousand women
signed the first petition, 19,000 the second and 32,000 the third. On 19 September 1893 the
Electoral Act was passed with a clause to the effect that the word person encompassed
women. Kate Sheppard worked to get women on the electoral roll. Sixty‐five percent of
eligible women voted in the 1893 election.
Kate Lovell‐Smith died in 1934 and was buried at Addington with her mother, sister and
brother‐in‐law, Maria and George Beath.
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