Charlotte Despard
British suffragist (1844-1939) · United Kingdom · On the map · Activists · Died at 95
Charlotte Despard was an Anglo-Irish suffragist, socialist, pacifist, Sinn Féin activist, and novelist.
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Despard and Anne Cobden-Sanderson outside No. 10 Downing St prior to being arrested on 19 August 1909
Charlotte Despard (2nd right) at the WFL offices with Edith How-Martyn, Mrs Sproson and Miss Tite
Tree planted by Charlotte Despard at Eagle House, Batheaston
Charlotte Despard with WFL banner at Women's Coronation Procession, 17 June 1911
Despard and Alison Neilans inside the Women's Freedom League caravan
Pub named after Charlotte Despard, Archway Road, London N19
Millicent Fawcett statue, Parliament Square London. Despard's name and picture appear on the plinthAbout this person
She was a founding member of the Women's Freedom League, the 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.
