Ask the Chatbot Games & Quizzes History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture ProCon Money Videos

Dame Christabel Harriette Pankhurst: Quick Facts

Written and fact-checked by
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of  Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them.
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Last updated

Facts

Born September 22, 1880 • Manchester • England
Died February 13, 1958 (aged 77) • Los Angeles • California
Founder Women’s Social and Political Union
Notable Family Members mother Emmeline Pankhurst

Photos and Videos

Dame Christabel Harriette Pankhurst, left, and her mother, Emmeline Pankhurst, stand side by side wearing hats and formal clothing in front of a brick wall and a flag.
Black and white photo of women and girls in early 1900s dress holding a banner reading "I WISH MA COULD VOTE" at a suffrage march, with American flags in the background.
Learn how Constance Lytton campaigned for the women's right to vote despite being from a royal family
See All Videos and Images →
Pankhurst, Emmeline
Emmeline Pankhurst
British suffragist
Mabel St. Clair Stobart
Mabel St. Clair Stobart
English feminist and medical worker
Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett
Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett
British suffragist
default image
Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence, Baron Pethick-Lawrence
British statesman
The 106th archbishop of Canterbury
Sarah Mullally
English bishop
default image
David Simon, Lord Simon of Highbury
British industrialist and politician
default image
Denis Winston Healey, Baron Healey of Riddlesden
British politician and economist
default image
Sir Vincent Tewson
British labor leader
Hardie, drawing by Cosmo Rowe; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
J. Keir Hardie
British labor leader
default image
Helen Blackburn
British suffragist
Glenda Jackson smiling and holding her Academy Award for Best Actress, wearing a patterned blouse, outdoors in London.
Glenda Jackson
British actress and politician
Reg Empey
Reg Empey
British politician
Tony Hall
Tony Hall
British media executive
default image
Frederick Forsyth
British author
default image
Irene Ward
British politician
default image
Sir John Hope Simpson
British administrator
default image
Frederick Arthur, Lord Stanley of Preston
Canadian governor-general
default image
Sidney Webb
British economist
default image
Beatrice Webb
British economist
British prime minister Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
prime minister of United Kingdom