Katherine Douglas Smith

Katherine Douglas Smith (1878 – after 1947) was a militant British suffragette[1][2] and from 1908 a paid organiser of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU).

In 1908 she campaigned with Annie Kenney and Mary Blathwayt around the seaside towns of the west of England and Wales and on one occasion in Pembrokeshire the three women had to share a small and cramped room.

Douglas Smith and Clarke persuaded the officers to allow their taxi to pass through the cordon which then drove up to the door of No 10 where they were arrested.

For the July 1911 edition of Votes for Women Douglas Smith wrote a review of a recent biography of St Catherine of Siena which possibly shows she had an interest in religious matters.

[12] When in 1911 Christabel Pankhurst's leadership of the WSPU was criticised from within its own ranks Douglas Smith wrote to the suffragist publication The Freewoman stating "all of us who serve under that banner do so of our own free will; for us no press-gang has existed, and we can leave at any moment.