Marie Frances Lisette Hanbury
The Honourable Marie Frances Lisette Hanbury OBE | |
|---|---|
| Baroness Willoughby de Broke | |
| Born | 20 October 1868 Belmont, East Barnet, Hertfordshire, England |
| Died | 14 October 1941 (aged 72) |
| Spouse(s) | Richard Verney, 19th Baron Willoughby de Broke (m. 1895) |
| Issue | 1, John Verney, 20th Baron Willoughby de Broke |
| Father | Charles Addington Hanbury |
| Occupation | peeress and suffragist |
Marie Frances Lisette Verney, Baroness Willoughby de Broke OBE (née Hanbury, 20 October 1868 – 14 October 1941) was a British peeress and suffragist. She was a member of the Conservative and Unionist Women's Franchise Association (CUWFA).
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]
Death
Verney died on 14 October 1941.[2]
References
- ^ Locke, Amy Audrey (1916). The Hanbury Family. Vol. 2. Arthur L. Humphreys. p. 421.
- ^ a b Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003) Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, volume 3. Burke's Peerage Ltd. p. 4193.
- ^ a b Langley, Anne. "Rugby's Part in the Fight for Women's Suffrage". Our Warwickshire. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
- ^ O'Hagan, Lauren Alex (29 March 2021). The Sociocultural Functions of Edwardian Book Inscriptions: Taking a Multimodal Ethnohistorical Approach. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-000-36745-4.
- ^ a b c Thompson, Catherine (6 February 2018). "How Warwickshire women helped win the vote a century ago". Leamington Observer. Retrieved 23 July 2025.
- ^ a b Auchterlonie, Mitzi (24 October 2007). Conservative Suffragists: The Women's Vote and the Tory Party. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 129–130. ISBN 978-0-85771-159-5.
- ^ "Lady Willoughby de Broke (Marie Frances Lisette Verney)". Mapping Women's Suffrage, University of Warwick. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
- ^ "LADY WILLOUGHBY DE BROKE". Imperial War Museums. Retrieved 23 July 2025.
- ^ Hutchins, B. L. (1916). "Review of Domestic Service: An Enquiry by the Women's Industrial Council". The Economic Journal. 26 (103): 361–362. doi:10.2307/2221932. ISSN 0013-0133.
- ^ Madden, Kirsten Kara; Seiz, Janet A.; Pujol, Michèle A. (2004). A Bibliography of Female Economic Thought to 1940. Psychology Press. ISBN 978-0-415-23817-5.
- ^ Walker, Stephen P (1 October 2003). "Professionalisation or incarceration? Household engineering, accounting and the domestic ideal". Accounting, Organizations and Society. 28 (7): 743–772. doi:10.1016/S0361-3682(02)00020-X. ISSN 0361-3682.
- ^ Delap, Lucy (30 November 2007). ""Campaigns of Curiosity": Class Crossing and Role Reversal in British Domestic Service, 1890-1950". Left History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Historical Inquiry and Debate. 12 (2). doi:10.25071/1913-9632.14968. ISSN 1913-9632.
- ^ Pooley, Siân (2009). "Domestic servants and their urban employers: a case study of Lancaster, 1880–1914". The Economic History Review. 62 (2): 405–429. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0289.2008.00459.x. ISSN 1468-0289.