Katherine Harley (suffragist)
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Katherine Mary Harley (3 May 1855 – 7 March 1917) was a
Early and mid-life: 1855–1914
Katherine Harley was born in Kent, England, on 3 May 1855, the youngest of six daughters of Margaret French, née Eccles, and her husband John Tracy William French, a Royal Navy commander from Ireland. Katherine's siblings included an elder sister, Charlotte (later Charlotte Despard, born in 1844)[1] and John (later 1st Earl of Ypres, born in 1852).[2] Katherine's father died before she was born,[1] and her mother was confined to an asylum by 1867; she was raised by relatives.[3]
She married on 8 January 1877 Colonel George Ernest Harley,
In 1910 Harley joined the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS),[5] and became the honorary treasurer of the Midland Region. She was made president of the Shropshire branch of the NUWSS in 1913.[6] She was also a member of the Church League for Women's Suffrage.[7] In 1913 she proposed, and organised, the Great Pilgrimage.[8] The pilgrimage was a march along six routes to converge on Hyde Park, London, where there would be a rally. The march took place between 18 June and 26 July 1913.[9]
First World War
In 1914 Harley volunteered to assist the war effort by serving as a nurse with the
She became director of theIn late 1915 she transferred to
Memorials
Her gravestone, a large white stone cross in Salonika (Lembet Road) Military Cemetery, reads "On your tomb instead of flowers the gratitude of the Serbs shall blossom there".[10]
She is commemorated twice in Condover parish church in Shropshire, on a plaque on an oak screen that was erected in memory of her husband and herself, and on the parish's First World War memorial tablet which incorrectly names her "Katherine Ellen Harley".[12] She also appears on the parish war memorial in the Trinity Chapel of St Mary's Church, Shrewsbury.[13]
A memorial fund was raised by the Women's' Citizens Association by 1924, which partly endowed a cot in the
See also
- Elsie Inglis Memorial Maternity Hospital – former hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service – Scottish women's medical units in foreign service during WWI
- Eveline Haverfield– British suffragette and aid worker (1867–1920)
- Elizabeth Ness MacBean Ross – Scottish physician (1878 - 1915)
- Leila Paget– British humanitarian (1881-1958)
- Mabel St Clair Stobart – British suffragist and aid-worker
- Josephine Bedford– Australian philanthropist and WWI ambulance driver (1861-1955)
- Elsie Inglis – Scottish doctor (1864–1917)
- Isabel Emslie Hutton – Scottish physician (1887–1960)
- Katherine Stewart MacPhail – Scottish physician
References and sources
References
- ^ a b Mulvihill 2004.
- ^ Beckett 2004.
- ^ a b Nicolle 2015, p. 67.
- ^ Mate 1907, p. 136.
- ^ "Katherine Harley", Spartacus Educational.
- ^ Crawford2003, p. 275.
- ^ Robinson 2018, p. 151.
- ^ Atkinson 2018, 7678.
- ^ Robinson 2018, p. 152.
- ^ a b c "Katherine Harley". Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
- ^ Nicolle 2015, p. 68.
- ISBN 978-1-909644-11-3.
- ^ Shropshire War Memorials, Sites of Remembrance, p.185.
- ^ Keeling-Roberts 1981, pp. xvi, 54, 93.
Sources
- ISBN 978-1-4088-4406-9.
- Beckett, Ian F. W. (2004). "French, John Denton Pinkstone, first earl of Ypres (1852–1925)". required.)
- Crawford, Elizabeth (2003). The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866–1928. London: UCL Press. ISBN 978-1-135-43402-1.
- "Katherine Harley". Spartacus Educational. Retrieved 13 June 2018.
- "Katherine Harley". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Archived from the original on 1 July 2019. Retrieved 13 June 2018.
- Keeling-Roberts, Margaret (1981). In Retrospect, A Short History of the Royal Salop Infirmary. Wem, Shropshire: North Shropshire Printing Company.
- Mate, C. H., ed. (1907). Shropshire, Historical, Descriptive, Biographical - Volume II, Biographical. C.H. Mate, Bournemouth, Dorset. p. 136.
- Mulvihill, Margaret (2004). "Despard [née French], Charlotte (1844–1939)". required.)
- Nicolle, Dorothy (2015). Shrewsbury in the Great War. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen and Sword. ISBN 978-1-78383-113-5.
- ISBN 978-1-4735-4086-6.