11 Facts About Catherine Pine

Catherine Emily Pine was active in the women's suffrage movement in Britain.

Catherine Pine nursed the suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst and her son Henry.

Catherine Emily Pine was born in Maidstone on 7 May 1864.

Catherine Pine's parents were Robert Pine, a corn merchant, and his wife, Anne Bret.

Catherine Pine attended a school for nursing and trained as a nurse at St Bartholomew's Hospital between 1895 and 1897.

Catherine Pine was described by the staff as "'punctual, very kind and attentive, very patient and even tempered".

Catherine Pine took care of Pankhurst's son, who was suffering from an inflammation of the bladder, until he died of poliomyelitis in 1910.

From 1917 Catherine Pine worked in the Pankhurst family home at Tower Cressy, Campden Hill but was not in sympathy with the Montessori teaching methods used by Jenny Kenney for the children there.

Catherine Pine accompanied the Pankhursts when they went to Paris in early 1919, while Emmeline worked in France for the suffrage movement.

Catherine Pine returned to England in 1923 and found employment at Cottage Hospital, Herne Bay, Kent.

Catherine Pine was awarded a suffragette medal and left it to the History Section of the British College of Nurses, which was founded in 1926 by Ethel Gordon Fenwick, a former matron of St Bartholomew's where Catherine Pine had trained and worked.