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Person    | Female  Born 19/1/1856  Died 15/10/1937

Margaret Ashton

Categories: Gender Issues

Margaret Ashton

Chairperson of the North of England Society for Women’s Suffrage. Manchester’s first woman councillor. Active in women’s peace campaigns during First World War. The photograph shows her at the Manchester Free Trade Hall in 1909.

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Margaret Ashton

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Fawcett frieze - 14, Ashton

Margaret Ashton, 1856 - 1937

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