Ethel Mary Hartland

Ethel Mary Hartland (1 September 1875 – 11 September 1964) was a British women's rights activist, suffragist and magistrate.

Biography Hartland on 1 September 1875 in Morriston, Swansea, Wales. Her father was Edwin Sidney Hartland (1848–1927), who worked as a solicitor in Swansea, and her mother was Mary Elizabeth Hartland (, 1851–1945), a social activist and philanthropist. She was educated at Ribston Hall School for Girls in Gloucester, then abroad in Geneva and Hanover,

After returning to England, Hartland served as Honorary Secretary of the League of Pity, the children’s branch of the National Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), from 1902 to 1922. She worked on the Gloucestershire Victoria County History for two years from 1907 to 1909. including a food economy committee and a war savings committee, and held a garden party with her mother which raised funds for the Scottish Women’s Hospitals for Foreign Service. becoming the first woman to hold this position. After the appointment of more female JPs in the area, membership grew to include educator Lilian Faithfull, educator Rosa Pease and trade unionist Ada Prosser. In 1925, Hartland was elected to Gloucestershire’s Standing Joint Committee of JPs and county councillors (SJC). She was secretary of the GWMS until 1944.

In 1943, Hartland encouraged the Women's Council to support to the National Federation of Women’s Institutes (WI) campaign for female police officers to be accepted into the British Police Service. Her women's policing campaign became a model for other activists.

Hartland was also a supporter of the Gloucester Welsh Society.

Hartland died on 11 September 1964 from cerebral thrombosis in her home at Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.