What today's politicians could learn from the remarkable Kitty - Susan Morrison
Rural Perthshire isn’t exactly known for producing pioneering revolutionaries, but that’s exactly what Katherine Marjory Murray, Marchioness of Tullibardine, Duchess of Atholl was when she became Scotland’s first female MP in 1923. Her friends called her Kitty. Less of a mouthful.
But this was no window-smashing, sash-wearing, force-fed survivor of the suffragette wars. This was a woman who had actively campaigned against women’s right to vote, then changed her mind and ran for parliament. This Kitty thought for herself, defying attempts to pigeon-hole her into ideological boxes. They nicknamed her “The Red Duchess”.
She was born in Edinburgh in 1874. She married well in 1899, to John George Murray, then Marquis of Tullibardine. In 1917 he became the 8th Duke of Atholl, and Kitty became Duchess of Atholl
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