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    Charlotte Despard (née French; 15 June 1844 – 10 November 1939) was an Anglo-Irish suffragist, socialist, pacifist, Sinn Féin activist, and novelist....
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  • Despard may refer to: Charlotte Despard, British suffragette and Sinn Féin activist Edward Marcus Despard, Irish-born British colonel turned revolutionary...
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    violence. Gonne moved in upper-class circles. Lord French's sister, Mrs Charlotte Despard was a famous suffragist, who was already a Sinn Feiner when she arrived...
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    arrested, including Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Anne Cobden-Sanderson, Charlotte Despard, Teresa Billington-Greig, Mary Gawthorpe, Dora Montefiore. In November...
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    Crocker Helen Cruickshank Louie Cullen Alice Davies Emily Davison Charlotte Despard Violet Mary Doudney Edith Downing Flora Drummond Sophia Duleep Singh...
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    Markievicz (also imprisoned for her part in the Irish Rebellion), Charlotte Despard, Mary Richardson, Dora Montefiore, Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, and Ethel...
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    Strand. As a result, a letter dated 14 September 1907 and signed by Charlotte Despard, Edith How-Martyn, Caroline Hodgson, Alice Abadam, Teresa Billington-Greig...
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    Berry Helen Chenevix Frances Power Cobbe Margaret "Gretta" Cousins Charlotte Despard Norah Elam Katharine Gatty Eva Gore-Booth Anna Haslam Mary Hayden...
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    the contemporary leaders of the radical left—the veteran campaigner Charlotte Despard, the ILP leader William Crawford Anderson, and Beatrice and Sidney...
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    Dargan – Ireland's rail pioneer Peggy Dell - Irish singer and pianist Charlotte Despard – suffragist Private Thomas Duffy – VC recipient (Indian Mutiny) Éamon...
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    Other notable members of the family were the suffragette and writer Charlotte Despard, the elder sister of the first Earl, and Lady Lucy French, youngest...
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    suffrage activists and fund-raising annual birthday parties for Charlotte Despard. Despard travelled from Ireland each year to attend. The writer E.M. Forster...
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    with speakers that included George Bernard Shaw, the Irish feminist Charlotte Despard, the mayor of Battersea, James H. Brown (secretary of the Battersea...
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    Emmeline Pankhurst, founder of the Women's Social and Political Union Charlotte Despard, co-founder of the Women's Freedom League List of suffragists and...
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  • B. Blackwell. 1988. ISBN 978-1-55786-010-1. An unhusbanded life: Charlotte Despard : suffragette, socialist, and Sinn Feiner. Hutchinson. 1980. Amazing...
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    trip that Macardle came into contact with Charlotte Despard, sister of the Viceroy of Ireland Lord French. Despard had taken the pro-Irish side in the war...
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  • honoured, and the Conference be allowed to go ahead. Those members were Charlotte Despard, Edith How-Martyn, Caroline Hodgson, Alice Abadam, Teresa Billington-Greig...
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    November 7 – Kirsti Suonio, Finnish actress (b. 1872) November 10 – Charlotte Despard, Anglo-Irish suffragist, socialist, pacifist, Sinn Féin activist,...
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    suffragette, anti-war campaigner and Irish nationalist Sinn Féin member Charlotte Despard, a Catholic convert. British Viscountcy as Viscount French (1916)...
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  • club. Annual birthday parties to raise funds for Charlotte Despard were held at the club with Despard herself travelling from Ireland each year to attend...
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    committee. Frustrated, several members including Billington-Greig and Charlotte Despard quit to form their own organisation, the Women's Freedom League. In...
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  • Comerford Lil Conlon Marcella Cosgrave Leslie de Barra, wife of Tom Barry Charlotte Despard Margaret Dobbs Louise Gavan Duffy Emily and Eilis Elliott Ada English...
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  • Women. United Kingdom: The Women's Freedom League was formed when Charlotte Despard and others broke away from the Women's Social and Political Union...
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    among the non-Communist British sponsors of the Committee along with Charlotte Despard, Ellen Wilkinson, Vera Brittain and Storm Jameson, the Six Point Group...
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    Blackham) Roger Casement Lillie Connolly, widow of James Connolly Charlotte Despard, sister of Viscount French (Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 1918–21) Victor...
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    Holloway Jail where she went on hunger strike. Alongside Maud Gonne and Charlotte Despard, Sheehy-Skeffington helped establish the Women's Prisoners' Defence...
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    R. Clynes Seymour Cocks A. E. Coppard Helen Crawfurd Rose Davies Charlotte Despard R. Palme Dutt Isabella Ford Peter Fraser John Bruce Glasier Katharine...
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    Hyndman in a ceremony attended by, among others, Dadabhai Naoroji, Charlotte Despard and Bhikaji Cama When opened as a student-hostel in 1905, it provided...
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  • her mother's cousins was Charlotte Despard, a well-known campaigner for women's rights, suffragism, and Irish home rule. Despard was a powerful influence...
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    Quelch (the editor of the Social Democratic Federation's Justice) and Charlotte Despard, the Irish Republican and suffragette. Declaring India House open...
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