Katherine Raleigh
Katherine Raleigh | |
|---|---|
| Born | 9 May 1852 |
| Died | 1922 |
| Burial place | Abney Park Cemetery, Highbury, London, England |
| Alma mater | Newnham College, Cambridge |
| Occupation(s) | classics scholar, suffragist and tax resister |
| Organization(s) | Women's Freedom League National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies Women's Tax Resistance League The Folklore Society |
Katherine Ann Raleigh (9 May 1852 – 1922) was an English classics scholar, suffragist and tax resister. She was secretary of the Uxbridge and District Women's Freedom League (WFL) branch and a member of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) and Women’s Tax Resistance League (WTRL).
Education
Raleigh attended classes in political economy, French, archaeology and Egyptology at University College London.[1] She then studied classics at Newnham College, Cambridge, where she founded the Raleigh Musical Society.[2]
Career
After graduating in 1886,[2] Raleigh worked as a Greek scholar, expert on classical history and librarian for the Hellenic Society.[3][4] In 1905, she attended the International Classical Archaeological Congress in Athens, Greece.[5]
Raleigh translated The Gods of Olympos, or Mythology of the Greeks and Romans by August Heinrich Petiscus (1780–1846).[6] Raleigh gave lectures at the British Museum, such as on "Demonstrations on the Mausoleum of Helicarnassus," and " The Parthenon", and on 10 November 1913 she gave a lecture at Caxton Hall on the topic of "the Worship of Athene."[4]
Raleigh was also a member of The Folklore Society, joining in 1906.[3]
Suffrage activism
Raleigh was a member of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) and lived next door to Uxbridge's NUWSS headquarters.[7] She also organised in Amersham, Aylesbury and Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire, during a stay in Wendover. She wrote pamphlets in support of women's suffrage.[4]
In 1911, Votes for Women reported that Raleigh had organised a meeting on 16 March at Uxbridge Town Hall, chaired by Evelina Haverfield and with speeches by Anne Cobden Sanderson and Margaret Kineton Parkes.[3] Raleigh also participated in the 1911 suffragette census boycott.[4]
Raleigh was a member of the Women’s Tax Resistance League (WFL). In 1915, she refused to pay her taxes and was summoned to court in Stratford-Upon-Avon. She was fined £3 and £1 1s in solicitors fees.[8][7] Some of her belongings were sold at an auction at Chequers Hotel in Uxbridge,[9] to cover her unpaid taxes, with fellow suffragists purchasing them.[7]
Raleigh also stood as the first female candidate for Uxbridge Council.[4]
Death
Raleigh died in January 1922.[3] She was buried at Abney Park Cemetery in Highbury, London.[10]
References
- ^ University College London Session Fees Books, 1880-1 and 1882-3.
- ^ a b Newnham College Register, 1871-1971: 1951-1970. Vol. 1. Newnham College. 1990.
- ^ a b c d "Women's Tax Resistance League - Uxbridge". Our History Hayes. Retrieved 3 July 2025.
- ^ a b c d e Cartwright, Colin (11 June 2013). Burning to Get the Vote: The Women's Suffrage Movement in Central Buckinghamshire 1904-1914. Legend Press Ltd. ISBN 978-1-78955-150-1.
- ^ Comptes rendus du Congrès international d'archéologie, 1re session, Athènes 1905.-- [International Classical Archaeology Congress 1st: 1905: Athens Greece]. Athènes: Impr. "Hestia," C. Meissner & N. Kargadouris. 1905.
- ^ Ackerman, Robert (8 October 2013). The Myth and Ritual School: J.G. Frazer and the Cambridge Ritualists. Routledge. p. 211. ISBN 978-1-135-37112-8.
- ^ a b c "Slow moving, but unstoppable". Hillingdon Council. Retrieved 3 July 2025.
- ^ "Suffragette, Katherine Ann Raleigh". Warwick Advertiser. 28 August 1915. p. 2 – via Warwickshire County Council.
- ^ "Tax Resistance". The Vote. 9 September 1911. Retrieved 3 July 2025.
- ^ "Women's History walking tour - Suffragettes and Suffragists". Abney Park. 9 March 2024. Retrieved 3 July 2025.