Mrs Caroline Ashurst Stansfeld
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Married
Born: 1816
Died: 1885
Occupation: Wife of MP
Main Suffrage Society: CCNSWS
Other Societies: LNSWS
Society Role: CCNSWS executive committee member
1866 Petition: Yes
Petition Area: 35 Thurloe Square, London, Middlesex, England
Other sources: https://www.parliament.uk/1866
Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928 (2001).
Family information: Daughter of Unitarian solicitor William Ashurst, who was a member of the National Association for the Promoting of the Political and Social Improvement of the People. In 1844, married James Stansfield, a radical elected Liberal MP for Halifax in 1859. Sister to Emilie Venturi, who also signed the 1866 petition.
Additional Information: Caroline was a member of the Ladies London Emancipation Committee when it formed in 1863. After signing the 1866 petition, she joined the London NSWS but later broke with them over her continuing involvement in the campaign to Repeal the Contagious Diseases Act. She became an executive committee member of the Central Committee of the NSWS in 1871.
Other Suffrage Activities: The same year she signed the 1866 petition, Caroline was a member of the first committee of Elizabeth Garrett's (Anderson) St Mary's Dispensary for Women and Children.