Kate Harvey was an English suffragist, physiotherapist, and charity worker.
16 Facts About Kate Harvey
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Kate Harvey participated in the Women's Tax Resistance League and was jailed for her refusal to pay tax if she were not allowed the right to vote.
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Kate Harvey was the first person imprisoned for failure to pay a tax under the Insurance Act.
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Kate Harvey married Frank Harvey and had three daughters, before she was widowed.
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Kate Harvey operated a home in her residence in Bromley for disabled children and was an early practitioner of physical therapy, at a time when Victorian society frowned upon women working in medicine, especially in a field which used physical contact.
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Kate Harvey met and became close friends with Charlotte Despard, another widow involved in charitable works, who operated a home for the poor in Wandsworth.
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Kate Harvey was arrested and taken to the Bromley Police Court in August 1913, where she was ordered to pay fines under the Insurance Act.
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Kate Harvey refused to pay and was sentenced to serve two months in Holloway Prison.
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Kate Harvey was the first person sentenced under the Insurance Act, though two other suffragists had been imprisoned for failure to pay taxes in previous years for such things as dog licenses, carriage duties and inhabitant taxes.
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Kate Harvey was awarded a medal from suffragists depicting the entry of Holloway Prison.
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Kate Harvey was described as "intensely pious" and conducted religious instruction for the children in her care in a chapel she built in her home.
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In 1920, the Theosophical Society withdrew their support and moved the Theosophical Home School to the Old Rectory in Letchworth but Kate Harvey continued operating the facility at Kurundai.
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Kate Harvey maintained sole ownership of the facility, but between 1923 and 1928 it was operated by the Invalid Children's Aid Association as a convalescent center for children who had rheumatic diseases and she moved to a house near the facility known as "Wroth Tyes".
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In 1928, Kate Harvey took over management again and converted Kurundai to a boarding school, which she called Brackenhill Open Air Home School.
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Kate Harvey continued to live at Wroth Tyes with the headmistress of the school, Helen Smith.
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Kate Harvey died at Wroth Tyes, in Hartfield, East Sussex, England on 29 April 1946 and left the Brackenhill property to Smith.