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    Violet Hermione Graham, Duchess of Montrose, GBE (10 September 1854 – 21 November 1940) was a British philanthropist and anti-suffragist. She served as...
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  • Montrose (1770-1847) Caroline Graham, Duchess of Montrose, also called Duchess of Montrose (Mr Manton) (1818–1894) Violet Graham, Duchess of Montrose...
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    HMY Iolaire (category Protected wrecks of the United Kingdom)
    is an abbreviation of Hermione, the middle name of the Duke's wife, Violet Graham, Duchess of Montrose. By 1900 Horlicks proprietor Sir James Horlick,...
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    Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, Violet Graham, Duchess of Montrose, and Winifred Cavendish-Bentinck, Duchess of Portland. In 1903 Lady Cecil Scott...
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    James Angus Graham, 7th Duke of Montrose ID (2 May 1907 – 10 February 1992), styled Earl of Kincardine until 1925 and Marquess of Graham between 1925 and...
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    Commodore James Graham, 6th Duke of Montrose, KT, CB, CVO, VD, JP, DL (1 May 1878 – 20 January 1954), styled Marquess of Graham until 1925, was a Scottish...
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    Grimston, 3rd Earl of Verulam in 1878. Violet Hermione Graham, Duchess of Montrose (1854–1940), who married Douglas Graham, 5th Duke of Montrose in 1876. Sibyl...
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    Emily Graham (1882–1978), second daughter of Douglas Graham, 5th Duke of Montrose, and his wife, Violet Graham, Duchess of Montrose, daughter of Sir Frederick...
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    Adela Pankhurst (category Prisoners and detainees of the Commonwealth of Australia)
    Australia where she continued her activism and was co-founder of both the Communist Party of Australia and the Australia First Movement. Pankhurst was born...
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    Mary Somerville (category Members of the American Philosophical Society)
    first paper, "The magnetic properties of the violet rays of the solar spectrum", was published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society in 1826. Although...
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    Lucy Burns (category Alumni of the University of Oxford)
    United Kingdom, who joined the militant suffragettes. Burns was a close friend of Alice Paul, and together they ultimately formed the National Woman's Party...
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    construction of St Paul's Church; a design by the Edinburgh architectural practice Leadbetter & Fairley won the competition. Violet Graham, Duchess of Montrose laid...
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    Museums. Marguerite-Alexandrine, Duchess of Gramont (née Marguerite-Alexandrine von Rothschild). Elisabeth, Duchess of Clermont-Tonnerre (née Elisabeth...
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  • Ann Macbeth (category Alumni of the Glasgow School of Art)
    Section' of the First International Exhibition of Modern Decorative Art in Turin where she won a silver medal for the design of the Glasgow Coat of Arms on...
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    Edward Caird (category Alumni of the University of Glasgow)
    a holder of LLD, DCL, and DLitt. The younger brother of the theologian John Caird, he was the son of engineer John Caird, the proprietor of Caird & Company...
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    Flora Murray (category Alumni of the London School of Medicine for Women)
    Scotland, the daughter of Grace Harriet Murray (née Graham) and John Murray, a landowner and Royal Navy captain. Murray was the fourth of six children. Murray...
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    Catherine Helen Spence (category Settlers of South Australia)
    of 80 dubbed the "Grand Old Woman of Australia", Spence was commemorated on the Australian five-dollar note issued for the Centenary of Federation of...
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    sentenced to two weeks in Holloway Prison. Later that year, her husband Graham Moffat, who, like her, was also an active suffragette and actor, founded...
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  • Sarah Pedersen (category Year of birth missing (living people))
    engagement with the media and politicians. She holds a chair as Professor of Communication and Media at Robert Gordon University, in Scotland. Pedersen...
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    Elsie Inglis (category Alumni of the University of Edinburgh)
    Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow...
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    Mary Molony (category Place of birth missing)
    suffragette campaigner and member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). She became Organiser to the London Council of the Women's Freedom League...
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    Isabella Leitch (category Alumni of the University of Aberdeen)
    physiologist. She led the Imperial Bureau of Animal Nutrition. She published work on human pregnancy and a wide variety of subjects. Her work on systematic reviews...
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    Mary Sophia Allen (category British Union of Fascists politicians)
    defence of women's rights in the 1910–1920s and later involvement with British fascism. She is chiefly noted as one of the early leaders of the Women's...
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    Lilly Maxwell (category Year of birth uncertain)
    of voters for Manchester in error as her name, Lilly, was mistaken for that of a man. Her accidental inclusion on the list was discovered by one of the...
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    Chrystal Macmillan (category Alumni of the University of Edinburgh)
    before the House of Lords, and was one of the founders of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. In the first year of World War I, Macmillan...
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    Annot Robinson (category Alumni of the University of St Andrews)
    House of Commons. She helped to found the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. Born Annot Erskine Wilkie on 8 June 1874 in Montrose, Scotland...
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  • Flora Drummond (category People from the Isle of Arran)
    January 1949) was a British suffragette. Nicknamed 'The General' for her habit of leading women's rights marches wearing a military style uniform 'with an officers...
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  • Clyde. The earliest evidence of her connection with the WSPU associations in 1906 where she is listed in the postal directory of the time as its secretary...
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  • member and supporter of various charities within Portobello. She was one of four women who visited Switzerland in 1874 in the company of Mary Taylor; she...
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    Marion Wallace Dunlop (category Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art)
    a Scottish artist, author and illustrator of children's books, and suffragette. She was the first and one of the most well known British suffrage activists...
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