Margery Corbett Ashby

Standard Name: Ashby, Margery Corbett

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Mary Agnes Hamilton
Many of MAH 's friends were drawn from Things that Matter or Political: from the latter came her admiring friendship for Marion Rowntree (later Wilkinson) . Her three closest friends were Jacqueta Northcote ,...

Timeline

Later 1928: After the Representation of the People Act...

National or international item

Later 1928

After the Representation of the People Act made women electorally equal, Eva Hubback and Margery Corbett Ashby founded the National Union of Guilds for Citizenship (later the National Union of Townswomen's Guilds).
“Records of the Townswomen’s Guilds: Harrow on the Hill Branch”. AIM25: London Metropolitan University: Women’s Library.

Texts

Astor, Nancy Witcher, Viscountess et al. “Women in Medical Schools”. Times, p. 12.