Gentlewoman

48

Single

12 College Cloisters, Hereford

NUWSS

Complies

The only child of Reverend William Duncombe to reach adulthood, Isabel, her mother Isabelle and her father William, were all involved in suffrage campaigning in Hereford. Isabel and her family lived alongside the suffrage campaigners (see) Rev George Davis and his more militant wife Ethel Davis in The Cloisters. However, Isabel appears to have been a law abiding suffragist having membership of the NUWSS. She is found contributing to the NUWSS Women's Suffrage Pilgrimage, where women walked to London from all over the country, with her father in the NUWSS newspaper The Common Cause in 1913. She supported local campaigning for women's suffrage during the Hereford by-election in March 1912, working alongside (see) Mabel Chave and the Davis's. Isabel complied with the 1911 census, describing herself under occupation as a "gentlewoman". Her mother died in 1918, and Isabel and her father then moved to Cheltenham. She never married and died in 1947, leaving £18,000 in her will. Contributed by Herefordshire community fundraiser, Clare Wichbold MBE.