Feminist, Liberal politician, mathematician, engineer, artist and writer. NUWSS, unsuccessfully stood for Parliament.
Born as Rachel Pearsall Conn Costelloe. 1911 she married civil servant Oliver Strachey, brother of Lytton. Died London.
Feminist, Liberal politician, mathematician, engineer, artist and writer. NUWSS, unsuccessfully stood for Parliament.
Born as Rachel Pearsall Conn Costelloe. 1911 she married civil servant Oliver Strachey, brother of Lytton. Died London.
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Ray Strachey
Suffragette. Born in Lewisham. As a child, she survived poliomyelitis and had to use crutches or a tricycle, modified as a wheelchair. She was active in the women's suffrage movement and founded th...
Founded in 1882 by Constance Louisa Maynard and Ann Dudin Brown, as a residential women's college modelled on women's colleges already established in Oxford and Cambridge. The name probably came fr...
Throughout history women have generally not been allowed to vote, with, by the 19th century, a few exceptions based on the woman's marital status or her property ownership, and then only in some el...
The leading militant organisation campaigning for women's suffrage, founded in 1903, was known from 1906 as the suffragettes. These were the women who set fire to post boxes, broke windows in promi...
Born Lancashire. Mother of Christabel, Sylvia, Henry (known as Frank, died aged 4), Adela and Henry (Harry). 1886 the family moved from Manchester to Hampstead Road, London, where she ran a fancy ...
Person, Gender Issues, Politics & Administration, Seriously Famous
Based in Guildford. From their website: For over twenty-five years, the Cast Iron Company has supplied traditional street furniture, lighting and architectural metalwork to enhance urban streets, t...
Resident of the Central Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.
In 1899 the Wilkinson Sword factory moved from the City to Chelsea where it was known as the Oakley works and in 1903-4 it moved to Acton, retaining that name. Chelsea Despite the name, the Chelse...
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