Social reformer, a sister of John French. She was an advocate of women's rights and Irish self-determination. Her politics seriously embarrassed her brother during his viceroyalty of Ireland.
Charlotte Despard (1884 – 1939) was a British suffragette who was born in Ripple, Kent.
Despard joined the NUWSS (National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies) in 1906, but frustrated with the lack of progress the organisation was making she joined the more radical WSPU (Women’s Social and Political Union). Eventually, Despard was one of three women who formed the Womens Freedom League after disagreements over the autocratic way in which the WSPU was run.
Despard spend a lot of time in Ireland where her father was born, and here she formed the Irish Women’s Franchise League.
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