Viscountess Katherine Louisa Amberley
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Married
Born: 1842
Died: 1874
Occupation: Wife of MP and Viscount
Main Suffrage Society: NSWS
Society Role: President (Monmouthshire committee)
1866 Petition: Yes
Other sources: https://www.parliament.uk/1866
https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw192844/Katherine-Louisa-ne-Stanley-Viscountess-Amberley?LinkID=mp121308&search=sas&sText=amberley&role=sit&rNo=0
Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866?1928 (2001)
Family information: Fourth daughter of Lord and Lady Stanley of Alderley. Married Viscount Amberley in 1864, who was briefly MP for Nottingham after 1867.
Additional Information: Katherine Amberley became first president of the Bristol and West of England branch of the NSWS in 1868 and President of the Monmouthshire committee for the National Society for Women's Suffrage (NSWS) in 1872. In 1870 she gave a lecture, later published as 'The Claims of Women', in Stroud. Speaking in public was not seemly for a Viscountess, and her lecture drew the attention of Queen Victoria, who was opposed to women's suffrage. The Queen urged everyone to advise Katherine against 'this wicked folly of "women's rights"', adding that 'Lady Amberley ought to get a good whipping'. Katherine died of diptheria, caught while nursing her daughter.
Other Suffrage Activities: From 1872 until her death, Katherine was also a member of the executive committee of the Married Women's Property committee.