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2 unusual facts about Marie Corbett


Marie Corbett

She was a member of the Uckfield Board of guardians for 36 years, one of the first women poor law guardians and was also recorded as being the first woman to serve as a Rural district councillor in Uckfield.

She was also a founder member and secretary of the East Grinstead Women’s Soroptimist Society.


Margery Corbett Ashby

She was born at Danehill, East Sussex, the daughter of Charles Corbett a barrister who was sometime Liberal MP for East Grinstead and Marie Corbett herself a Liberal feminist and local councillor in Uckfield.


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