Katherine Raleigh

Katherine Ann Raleigh (9 May 1852 – 11 January 1937) was an English classics scholar, suffragist and tax resister. She was secretary of the Uxbridge and District Women's Freedom League (WFL) branch and a member of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) and Women’s Tax Resistance League (WTRL).

Education Raleigh was born in 1852 in Rotherham, Yorkshire, England. She was the daughter of Reverend Alexander Raleigh, a Congregationalist minister, and Mary . Her brother was Walter Alexander Raleigh and Lord Gifford was an uncle. She attended classes in political economy, French, archaeology and Egyptology at University College London. She then studied classics at Newnham College, Cambridge, where she founded the Raleigh Musical Society.

Career After graduating from Newnham in 1886, In 1905, she attended the International Classical Archaeological Congress in Athens.

Raleigh translated The Gods of Olympos, or Mythology of the Greeks and Romans by August Heinrich Petiscus (1780–1846); this was published in 1892 with a preface by Jane Ellen Harrison. Raleigh gave lectures at the British Museum, such as on "Demonstrations on the Mausoleum of Helicarnassus" and "The Parthenon", and on 10 November 1913 she gave a lecture at Caxton Hall on "the Worship of Athene". She also organised in Amersham, Aylesbury and Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire, during a stay in Wendover. She wrote pamphlets in support of women's suffrage. to cover her unpaid taxes, with fellow suffragists purchasing them.