How to Pronounce Mary Docherty
#20
Most Popular
Boost
Apr 27, 1908 Cowdenbeath, Scotland, United Kingdom Died on 02 Feb 2000 (aged 91)
20th-century Scottish activist
TaurusMary Docherty - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family
Mary Docherty, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Family, Facts, Age, Net Worth, Biography and More in FamedBorn.com
About Mary Docherty
- Mary Docherty (27 April 1908 – 2 February 2000) was a British activist and member of the Communist Party of Great Britain.
- Born to a working-class family in Cowdenbeath, Scotland, she was influenced by the communist beliefs of her father, a miner, as well as by the poverty she grew up in.
- She joined the Communist Party at the age of 18, and in 1929 traveled to the Soviet Union as a Scottish delegate to a gathering of young communists.
- She founded a local children's wing of the Communist Party, carried out a successful agitation to declare 1 May a school holiday, and worked for communist Member of Parliament Willie Gallacher.
- She retired from active politics at the age of 60, but continued to give talks and write her memoirs, published in 1991 as A Miner's Lass.
