Signed family name
Hall
Signed given name
Rose A
Given address
none given
Notes
Biographical information provided by Briar Barry for the He Tohu exhibition:
It is likely that this signature belongs to Rose Anne Hall (née Dryden), the wife of John Hall, the former premier who assumed parliamentary leadership of the campaign which granted women the vote. John had married Rose in England in 1861. Although he was a conservative politician, John Hall supported the female suffrage movement as he had long believed that women had a right to the vote; he was also certain that their votes would exercise a conservative influence.