Duchess of Atholl riding a bicycle
The Duchess of Atholl pictured riding a bike, a journey she did regularly during the war, cycling from her Perthshire home of Eastwood to Dunkeld where she ran the Perthshire branch of the Red Cross as President. Katharine Marjory Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl, DBE (nee Ramsay) (1874 - 1960), known as the Marchioness of Tullibardine from 1899 to 1917, was a Scottish noblewoman and Scottish Unionist Party politician. She was the first woman to be elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) in Scotland, despite having campaigned against women's suffrage before it was granted in 1918. She was the first woman to serve in a British Conservative government. She later found herself at odds with her party and resigned the Whip in 1935 over the India Bill. She became strongly anti-fascist in the 1930s and criticised authoritarian regimes in Soviet Russia, Italy and Spain as well as Nazi Germany. She was given the nickname Red Duchess for these views
