Dame Margery Irene Corbett Ashby, DBE (née Corbett; 19 April 1882 – 15 May 1981) was a British suffragist, Liberal politician, feminist and internationalist...

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constituency was notable because his Liberal Party opponent was Margery Corbett Ashby, one of the seventeen women who stood for Parliament at the first...

writer Margery Corbett Ashby (1882–1981), British feminist and internationalist Michael Ashby (1914–2004), British neurologist Michael F. Ashby (born 1935)...

the UK. The movement was formed in 1929, at the instigation of Margery Corbett Ashby and Eva Hubback, when all women over 21 won the right to vote and...

early March by Margery Corbett Ashby, a member of the executive board of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, and Margery Fry, a penal reformer...

in 1918 was notable because the Liberal Party candidate was Mrs Margery Corbett Ashby, one of only seventeen women candidates to contest a parliamentary...

daughters were Dame Margery Corbett Ashby, an international feminist campaigner and Liberal Parliamentary candidate, and Cicely Corbett Fisher, a suffragist...

Minister of Information Pierre Coalfleet, aka Frank Davison, writer Margery Corbett Ashby, feminist Noël Coward, high-profile actor and armed forces entertainer...

pro-Western stance throughout the Cold War. Its second President, Dame Margery Corbett Ashby, wrote that "it was us or the communist women who would organize...

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take her seat at Westminster. The seventeen women candidates were: Margery Corbett Ashby, aged 36, Liberal, Birmingham, Ladywood Winnifred Carney, aged 31...

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Gina Krog Hagbart Berner Fredrikke Marie Qvam Carrie Chapman Catt Margery Corbett Ashby Hanna Rydh Margarete Bonnevie Eva Kolstad Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan...

Oleksander Shulhyn, Ukrainian Public Committee for Saving Ukraine. Also, Margery Corbett Ashby, the head of International Women's Alliance, appealed to him. He...

grandparents, Charles and Marie Corbett, were active in the British Liberal Party; her mother Cicely and aunt Dame Margery Corbett Ashby were prominent suffragists...

Anne McEwen, Ruth Railton, Grace Tebbutt, Mabel Tylecote 1967: Margery Corbett Ashby, The Countess of Brecknock, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Gladys Cooper,...

included Nancy Astor, Margaret Bondfield, Vera Brittain, John Brophy, Margery Corbett-Ashby, Anthony Cronin (literary editor mid-1950s), E. M. Delafield, Charlotte...

their candidate. However, the 62-year-old leading Liberal activist Margery Corbett Ashby decided to contest the seat. She resigned her position in the Liberal...

Ashby (always known as "Mike") was born in London, the son of Arthur Brian Ashby, a barrister and company chairman, and Dame Margery Corbett-Ashby. He...

statue's plinth. They are as follows: Louisa Garrett Anderson Dame Margery Corbett Ashby Margaret Ashton Minnie Baldock Frances Balfour Lydia Becker Rosa...

Alliance of Women. The conference was held under the chairmanship of Margery Corbett Ashby, the president of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance, and...

candidates had been selected; Conservative: Alexander Spearman Liberal: Margery Corbett-Ashby List of parliamentary constituencies in North Yorkshire Wayback...

1897) 10 May – Geoffrey Stevens, politician (born 1902) 15 May – Margery Corbett Ashby, politician (born 1882) 16 May – Keith Murray, ceramic and glass...

Liberal Enfield Janet McEwan 1,987 12.1 3 Liberal Birmingham Ladywood Margery Corbett Ashby 1,552 11.5 3 Liberal Mansfield Violet Carruthers 4,000 19.5 3 Liberal...

resulted in a number of prominent Liberal Party women, such as Margery Corbett Ashby joining. The Liberal Year Book 1929 Feature on the 1920 Club, Lloyd...

and Freedom (WILPF), and Margery Corbett Ashby, president of the International Alliance of Women attended the congress. Ashby later wrote to her husband...

lost the 1943 Darwen by-election by 70 votes. The group endorsed Margery Corbett Ashby as an independent Liberal at the 1944 Bury St Edmunds by-election...

Angelou United States 1928 2014 Civil rights activist 1875–1939 Margery Corbett Ashby United Kingdom 1882 1981 Suffragette 1875–1939 Ksenija Atanasijević...

31,758 52.3 -11.5 Labour Robert Lyons 15,434 25.5 +8.0 Liberal Margery Corbett Ashby 13,449 22.2 +3.5 Majority 16,324 26.8 -18.3 Turnout 60,641 72.0...