Charlotte Despard
(1844-1939)
woman, Suffragette, socialist, pacifist, and Irish Nationalist
Died aged 95
Wikidata WikipediaCharlotte Despard (née French; 15 June 1844 – 10 November 1939) was an Anglo-Irish suffragist, socialist, pacifist, Sinn Féin activist, and novelist. She was a founding member of the Women's Freedom League, Women's Peace Crusade, and the Irish Women's Franchise League, and an activist in a wide range of political organizations over the course of her life, including among others the Women's Social and Political Union, Humanitarian League, Labour Party, Cumann na mBan, and the Communist Party of Great Britain. Despard was imprisoned four times for her suffragette activism, and she continued actively campaigning for women's rights, poverty relief and world peace right into her 90s.
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Charlotte Despard (1844-1939) Suffragette Socialist Pacifist Irish Nationalist She donated this building to Battersea Labour
177 Lavender Hill, London, United Kingdom where they donated