Person    | Female  Born 19/4/1882  Died 15/5/1981

Dame Margery Irene Corbett Ashby

Liberal politician and internationalist. Born East Sussex. Secretary of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies and later President of the International Women’s Suffrage Alliance. The photograph shows her in 1923.

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Dame Margery Irene Corbett Ashby

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Dame Margery Irene Corbett Ashby, 1882 - 1981

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