Marie Frances Lisette Hanbury
British peeress and suffragist (1868–1941)
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Marie Frances Lisette Verney, Baroness Willoughby de Broke OBE (née Hanbury; 20 October 1868 – 14 October 1941) was a British peeress, suffragist and writer. She was a member of the Conservative and Unionist Women's Franchise Association (CUWFA).
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Belmont, East Barnet, Hertfordshire, England
Kineton, Warwickshire, England
The Honourable Marie Frances Lisette Hanbury OBE | |
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| Baroness Willoughby de Broke | |
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| Born | 20 October 1868 Belmont, East Barnet, Hertfordshire, England |
| Died | 14 October 1941 (aged 72) Kineton, Warwickshire, England |
| Spouse | |
Issue | John Verney, 20th Baron Willoughby de Broke |
| Father | Charles Addington Hanbury |
| Occupation | Peeress and suffragist |
Family
Hanbury was born in 1868 in Belmont, East Barnet, Hertfordshire, England and was the youngest daughter of Charles Addington Hanbury and Christine Isabella Hanbury (née Mackenzie).[1]
On 2 July 1895, she married the peer and conservative politician Richard Verney, 19th Baron Willoughby de Broke and they had one son, John Henry Peyto Verney, 20th Baron Willoughby de Broke.[2]
The family lived at Compton Verney, Warwickshire,[3] and Hanbury is known to have gifted her husband the Clarendon Press' most expensive gift edition of Tennyson's Poetical Works.[4]
Activism
Verney was an active suffragist.[5][6] She became a member of the Conservative and Unionist Women's Franchise Association and was appointed a local president in 1911.[7] As part of her campaigning activities for women's enfranchisement, she organised a march in Stratford-upon-Avon,[5] wrote articles outlining the benefits to women gaining the vote,[6] and planned outings for suffragists from Kineton and Wellesbourne in Warwickshire.[3] After the death of Emily Wilding Davison in 1913, Verney and her husband organised a rally at their home.[5]
During World War I, Verney was Vice President and Commandant at the Kineton Red Cross Auxiliary Hospital.[8]
In 1916, Verney wrote a supplementary chapter for C. Violet Butler's social research report Domestic Service: An Enquiry by the Women’s Industrial Council, which was published in The Economic Journal, Volume 26.[9] This report has since been cited by A Bibliography of Female Economic Thought to 1940 (2004),[10] alongside articles in Accounting Organizations and Society,[11] Left History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Historical Inquiry and Debate,[12] and The Economic History Review.[13]