1. Catherine Isobel Ida Corbett was a British suffragette, one of those imprisoned and awarded the Hunger Strike Medal, for the cause of the Women's Social and Political Union.
10 Facts About Catherine Corbett
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Catherine Corbett was born Catherine Isobel Ida Vans Agnew in 1869 to George Vans Agnew from Wigtownshire, Scotland and Rosa Coppard Wilson.
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Catherine Corbett married Frank Corbett on 22 October 1895 and was widowed in 1912.
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Catherine Corbett became active in the WSPU and she was arrested for obstruction and she and Olive Fargus were photographed in the Daily Mirror with a suffragette deputation on 24 February 1908, and then imprisoned for four weeks.
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Catherine Corbett was called 'an aristocrat supporter of the suffragette movement' in the Los Angeles Herald 25 February 1909.
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Catherine Corbett's involvement is referenced in the updated fictional Suffragette Sally, originally published in 1911 but based on real incidents.
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Later the same year, in Dundee, Catherine Corbett was with Adela Pankhurst, Maud Joachim, Helen Archdale and Laura Evans and two Dundee men, Owen Clark and William Carr who supported their cause, to disrupt a meeting of Winston Churchill, MP in the Kinnaird Hall.
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Catherine Corbett said the protestors were all courageous and 'would not stop until they got the barricades down, they were glorious'.
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Catherine Corbett was described as appearing older than her age, and 'with a rapid action of the heart and palpitation on movement.
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Catherine Corbett is listed in the Role of Honour of suffragette prisoners in the National Archives.