Catherine Pine

Catherine Emily Pine (7 May 1864 – 14 August 1941) was active in the women's suffrage movement in Britain. She nursed the suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst and her son Henry. Pine travelled with Pankhurst before returning to Britain permanently in 1924.

Family and education Catherine Emily Pine was born in Maidstone on 7 May 1864. After qualification she remained at St Bartholomew's until she was promoted to Hospital Sister in 1900. She was described by the staff as "‘punctual, very kind and attentive, very patient and even tempered".

Career and support for suffragettes Pine opened a nursing home in 1907 in Pembridge Gardens, Notting Hill, London, working with Nurse Gertrude Townend. Emmeline Pankhurst was one of the imprisoned suffragettes that underwent care at the nursing home and she soon viewed Pine as a friend and a competent nurse. Pine also took care of Pankhurst's son, who was suffering from an inflammation of the bladder, until he died of poliomyelitis in 1910. Pine accompanied the Pankhursts when they went to Paris in early 1919, while Emmeline worked in France for the suffrage movement. The medal was likely sold when this organisation folded in 1956 and was later owned by an American collector before being acquired by a researcher.

Pine's medal has been put on show for the first time at the Florence Nightingale Museum in London from February to October 2026.

Pine's library and mementos were given to the Museum of London.