Catherine Williamson
Catherine Ellis Williamson (née Goodbody; 1 May 1896 – 25 April 1977) was an Irish politician.Born in Dublin to lawyer Lewis Goodbody and his wife Edith (née Pim), Williamson studied at Cheltenham Ladies College and in St Germain-en-Laye in Paris. For part of World War I, she taught Braille at St Dunstan's in London, before becoming a director of J. J. Williamson & Sons, her family's tannery business in Canterbury.
Williamson joined the Labour Party and was elected to Canterbury City Council in 1935, serving as Mayor of Canterbury from 1939 to 1941: the city's first woman mayor. Soon afterwards, she defected to the Common Wealth Party, for which she stood in the 1943 Ashford by-election, taking 30.3% of the vote against a single opponent. She stood in Canterbury at the 1945 United Kingdom general election but, facing both Labour and Conservative opponents, could only take 2.6% of the votes cast.
Williamson rejoined Labour late in the 1940s, and stood in East Grinstead at the 1950 general election, and in Hastings in 1951. She travelled widely, particularly to China, where she met Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai.
Long a member of the Society of Friends, Williamson also identified as a member of the Church of England, and joined the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association. Provided by Wikipedia
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3by Mussarat N. Rahim, Catherine Williamson, Nikos A. Kametas, Michael A. HeneghanGet full text
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4by Oladipupo Adeyemi, Anita Alvarez-Laviada, Francisca Schultz, Effendi Ibrahim, Michael Trauner, Catherine Williamson, Alexey V Glukhov, Julia GorelikGet full text
Published 2017-01-01
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5by Effendi Ibrahim, Ivan Diakonov, Dulasi Arunthavarajah, Teresa Swift, Mary Goodwin, Saraid McIlvride, Vanya Nikolova, Catherine Williamson, Julia GorelikGet full text
Published 2018-05-01
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6by Hannes Hagström, Jonas Höijer, Hanns‐Ulrich Marschall, Catherine Williamson, Michael A. Heneghan, Rachel H. Westbrook, Jonas F. Ludvigsson, Olof StephanssonGet full text
Published 2018-11-01
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8by Khadija M. Alawi, David Tandio, Jin Xu, Pratish Thakore, Georgia Papacleovoulou, Elizabeth S. Fernandes, Cristina Legido-Quigley, Catherine Williamson, Susan D. BrainGet full text
Published 2017-05-01
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9by Elisa Ferraro, Lidia Pozhidaeva, David S. Pitcher, Catherine Mansfield, Jia Han Benjamin Koh, Catherine Williamson, Oleg Aslanidi, Julia Gorelik, Fu Siong NgGet full text
Published 2020-09-01
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10by Siti H Sheikh Abdul Kadir, Michele Miragoli, Shadi Abu-Hayyeh, Alexey V Moshkov, Qilian Xie, Verena Keitel, Viacheslav O Nikolaev, Catherine Williamson, Julia GorelikGet full text
Published 2010-03-01
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11by Victoria Geenes, Anita Lövgren-Sandblom, Lisbet Benthin, Dominic Lawrance, Jenny Chambers, Vinita Gurung, Jim Thornton, Lucy Chappell, Erum Khan, Peter Dixon, Hanns-Ulrich Marschall, Catherine WilliamsonGet full text
Published 2014-01-01
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12by Lucy C. Chappell, Jenny Chambers, Peter H. Dixon, Jon Dorling, Rachael Hunter, Jennifer L. Bell, Ursula Bowler, Pollyanna Hardy, Edmund Juszczak, Louise Linsell, Catherine Rounding, Anne Smith, Catherine Williamson, Jim G. ThorntonGet full text
Published 2018-11-01
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13by Lucy C Chappell, Jennifer L Bell, Anne Smith, Catherine Rounding, Ursula Bowler, Louise Linsell, Edmund Juszczak, Sue Tohill, Amanda Redford, Peter H Dixon, Jenny Chambers, Rachael Hunter, Jon Dorling, Catherine Williamson, Jim G ThorntonGet full text
Published 2020-12-01
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14by Alexandra Milona, Vittoria Massafra, Harmjan Vos, Jyoti Naik, Natalia Artigas, Helen A.B. Paterson, Ingrid T.G.W. Bijsmans, Ellen C.L. Willemsen, Jose M. Ramos Pittol, Irene Miguel-Aliaga, Piter Bosma, Boudewijn M.T. Burgering, Catherine Williamson, Santiago Vernia, Waljit S. Dhillo, Saskia W.C. van Mil, Bryn M. OwenGet full text
Published 2019-12-01
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15by William M. Hague, Leonie Callaway, Jennifer Chambers, Lucy Chappell, Suzette Coat, Jiska de Haan-Jebbink, Marloes Dekker, Peter Dixon, Jodie Dodd, Maria Fuller, Sanne Gordijn, Dorothy Graham, Oskari Heikinheimo, Annemarie Hennessy, Risto Kaaja, Teck Yee Khong, Laura Lampio, Jennie Louise, Angela Makris, Corey Markus, Hanns-Ulrich Marschall, Philippa Middleton, Ben W. Mol, Jonathan Morris, John P. Newnham, Caroline Ovadia, Michael Peek, Antonia Shand, Michael Stark, Jim Thornton, Susanna Timonen, Susan Walker, David Warrilow, Catherine WilliamsonGet full text
Published 2021-01-01
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