Margery Corbett Ashby

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Dame Margery Irene Corbett Ashby (19 April 1882–15 May 1981) was a British feminist and internationalist.

She was born at Danehill, East Sussex and was educated at home. With her sister Cicely and friends, she founded the Younger Suffragists in 1901. Though she passed her Classics exam at Newnham College, Cambridge University refused to grant her a degree because she was female.

After deciding against teaching, she was appointed Secretary of the National Union of Women Suffrage Societies in 1907. She married lawyer Brian Ashby in 1910 and had their only child in 1914. In 1918 she mounted the first of seven unsuccessful attempts to be elected to the House of Commons. She served as President of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance from 1923 to 1946. ^[1]

[edit] Family

Her son Michael Ashby was a neurologist and gave evidence as an expert witness at the 1957 trial of suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams.^[2]

[edit] References

^ Law, Cheryl. Women, A Modern Political Dictionary. I.B. Tauris, 200. ISBN 186064502X
^ Cullen, Pamela V., "A Stranger in Blood: The Case Files on Dr John Bodkin Adams", London, Elliott & Thompson, 2006, ISBN 1-904027-19-9