Charlotte Despard
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Charlotte Despard was an Anglo-Irish suffragist, socialist, pacifist, Sinn Féin activist, and novelist. She was a founding member of the Women's Freedom League, the Women's Peace Crusade, and the Iris
Despard, c. 1910
Despard and Anne Cobden-Sanderson outside No. 10 Downing St prior to being arrested on 19 August 1909
Charlotte Despard (2nd right) at the WFL offices with Edith How-Martyn, Mrs Sproson and Miss Tite
Tree planted by Charlotte Despard at Eagle House, Batheaston
Field Marshal John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres, known as Sir John French from 1901 to 1916, and as The Viscount French between 1916 and 1922, was a senior British Army officer.
Charlotte Despard
…age of 10, getting a train to London "to become a servant". After her father died, the family settled in Edinburgh and later York. Despard's brother Sir John French became both a leading military commander during World War I and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, putting them on opposing political sides in later life. She…
Field Marshal Sir John French 2
Colonel French in full dress uniform, 1892. This is one of the few photographs of French taken before his appearance aged dramatically, and hinting at his success as a womaniser.
French caricatured by GDG for Vanity Fair, July 1900
The funeral of King Edward VII. General French, Sir Evelyn Wood, Lord Roberts, Lord Kitchner.