Janetta Isabel Mary Ornsby (died 1954) was a British suffragist and one of the founder's of the Women's Engineering Society. Early life Born Janet Isabel Mary Palmer, her parents were Reverend Albert Reynolds Palmer of Dalkieth and Margaret Anne Macfarlane (1839-93). She was the granddaughter of Dr MacFarlane also of Dalkieth. In 1896, she married Robert Embleton Ornsby (1856-1920) author and agent to the Seaton Delaval Coal Company and he wrote the memoirs of James Robert Hope Scott in 1884. Janet Ornsby was involved in the women's suffrage movement and was one of the founders of the Women's Engineering Society. Due to her husband's ill health, she often addressed coalminers and coal owners in his absence. Especially after his death, she was very active in the work of the Society. She died in Edinburgh in 1954. References 1954 deaths British suffragists People from Northumberland British engineers Year of birth missing