Margery Corbett Ashby

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Margery Corbett Ashby , DBE (born April 19, 1882 in Danehill , East Sussex , England ; † May 15, 1981 ibid) was a British suffragette and politician .

Life

The daughter of the judge and liberal members of the House of Commons for the constituency of East Grinstead Charles Corbett has already participated at an early stage politically and holds a degree in classical studies at Newnham College of the University of Cambridge . After 1901, together with her sister Cicely Corbett and other young women founded the Younger suffragists, she took in 1904 after graduation next to her mother in the conference to found the World Federation for Women's Suffrage (Engl. International Woman Suffrage Alliance , IWSA) in Berlin part and devoted himself to the women's movement and the right to vote in the following years .

In 1907 she became secretary of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies , NUWSS. In 1918 she ran for the first time as a representative of the Liberal Party for the lower house, but she missed a seat in parliament as well as in the six subsequent lower house elections until 1944.

After some time in the IWSA, she finally became the successor to Carrie Chapman Catt herself chairwoman of the IWSA in 1923 and held this office until 1946. In this role she was not only limited to the organization of the alliance, but was also during its numerous Travel abroad, together with the feminist Rosa Manus , an energetic advocate for the introduction of women's suffrage. She also received support from her husband Brian Ashby, a lawyer with whom she had been married since 1910. Together with Eva Hubback , she also founded the British women's movement Townswomen's Guild in 1929.

For her services, she was awarded an honorary doctorate from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts . In addition, she was honored with the title of Lady Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE).

Signature 1926

Fonts

  • Autobiography (1926), in: Elga Kern (Ed.): Leading Women in Europe , Munich 1999 [1928], pp. 217–221

literature

  • Chambers Biographical Dictionary . 2002, ISBN 0-550-10051-2 , p. 72.
  • Antonius Lux (ed.): Great women of world history. A thousand biographies in words and pictures . Sebastian Lux Verlag , Munich 1963, p. 117.
  • Great women in world history . Neuer Kaiser Verlag 1987, p. 117.

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personal data
SURNAME Corbett Ashby, Margery
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Corbett, Margery (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British suffragette and politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Danehill , East Sussex , England
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1981
Place of death Danehill , East Sussex , England