Catherine Courtauld Taylor was a social reformer and suffragist. President of Birmingham Women’s Suffrage Society.
Born in Bridgwater to parents who supported women's suffrage. Married Alfred Osler who ran the family firm in Birmingham making the crystal for chandeliers.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Catherine Courtauld Osler
Opened by Sylvia Pankhurst as an answer to the dozens of tiny failing workshops where women were paid a pittance. Toys were no longer being imported from Germany, so the factory employed 59 women t...
Public House. It was originally called the Mother Black Cap after a local legend concerning a witch, and had that name, according to licensing records, as early as 1751. In the mid 1960s it became ...
Activist and community leader. Born in St Catherine, Jamaica, and moved to Britain at the age of nine. She was a founding member of the Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent (OWAAD) in...
Person, Gender Issues, Race Issues, Social Welfare, Caribbean Islands
Suffragette and martial arts instructor. Born Edith Margaret Williams in Bath. She married William Garrud, a physical culture instructor and in 1899 they were introduced to the art of jiu-jitsu. In...
Person, Gender Issues, Politics & Administration, Sport / Games
Intellectual, political leader, activist and writer. Born Suffolk and brought up at Snape where her family owned the maltings. Pioneer of the women's suffrage movement but she advocated a non-viole...
This plaque, which was on the east face of the plinth (the back in our photo), has 'disappeared' since the photograph was taken. Diamond...
We only know about this plaque from an article in the 24 November 2019 Hindustan Times, whence our photo. "The Royal College of General P...
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