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]
Biography
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]
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