Margery Corbett Ashby

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

Biography

The daughter of the judge and Liberal Members of Parliament for the constituency of East Grinstead Charles Corbett became involved at an early stage politically and earned a degree in classical archeology at Newnham College, University of Cambridge. After 1901, together with her sister Cicely Corbett and other young women the Younger Suffragists founded, she took in 1904 after graduation next to her mother at the Meeting for the creation of the World Federation for Women's Suffrage (English International Woman Suffrage Alliance, IWSA ) in Berlin part and devoted himself in the following years, the women's movement and women's suffrage.

In 1907 she was secretary of the National Union of Associations for women's suffrage (English National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, NUWSS ). In 1918 she was a candidate himself as representative of the Liberal Party for the first time for the lower house, but she missed a seat in parliament as well as in the six subsequent general election until 1944.

After she had some time in the IWSA, she was finally in 1923 as a successor of Carrie Chapman Catt himself chairman of the IWSA and held that office until 1946. In this role, she was not only limited to the organization of the Alliance, but was also during her numerous traveling abroad, along with the feminist Rosa Manus, an energetic representative for the introduction of women's suffrage. They also received support from her husband, Brian Ashby, a lawyer with whom she had been married since 1910. Also together with Eva Hubback she founded in 1929 the British women's movement Town Women 's Guild.

For her contributions to her an honorary doctoral degree from the Mount Holyoke College was awarded in Massachusetts. In addition, she was honored with the title of Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE ).