Ashby, Margery Irene (1882–1981)

English feminist. She attended the first International Women's Suffrage Congress in Berlin (1904) and subsequently worked with various women's organizations, becoming president of the International Alliance of Women 1923–46. She also co-founded the National Union of Townswomen's Guilds in 1929. Her international work was recognized with an honorary degree awarded by Mount Holyoke College, USA.

Educated initially at home, she later studied classics at Newnham College, Cambridge. Between 1918 and 1944 she stood as a Liberal candidate seven times; her father was the Liberal member of Parliament for East Grinstead.