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" If you haven't learnt to love someone better than you love yourself you haven't even begun to live "
Catherine Bramwell Booth
Her Name is Catherine
* Catherine Bevan
..... born 1680 and on June 10th 1731 became the FIRST and only woman in America to be strangled to death at the stake and then her body burned. When the rope was burned away by the fire, which had been set prematurely, she was burned alive in horrible agony. This had also happened to Catherine Hayes in England five years earlier. Catherine Bevan's crime was the murder of her husband after she had taken his servant as her lover. After they had failed to poison him, her lover beat him unconscious while she strangled him to death with a handkerchief
* Catherine Birtwistle
..... FIRST ever woman to go to Division One Weapons Training in the British Army. She was later promoted to Major but eventually was sacked from her job after she became pregnant. She then started a legal battle against the Secretary of State for Defence over sex discrimination
* Catherine Chisholme
..... FIRST woman graduate in medicine at Manchester University (UK) - 1904
* Catherine Choukroun
..... on February 20th 1991 she became the FIRST French policewoman to be killed on duty when she was gunned down by mystery attackers at a radar speed control point in Paris
* Catherine Clive
born 1711 died 1785
..... English actress commonly known as Kitty Clive who for 40 years was the FIRST comedienne of the London stage in the early 1700s. She worked mainly at Drury Lane and was particularly good in farce. She had a long and successful career and in 1769 retired with a house and pension provided by the writer Horace Walpole
* Catherine A Costa
..... FIRST woman elected to the board of Burlington County in America when made a Freeholder, FIRST Chairman of the newly created Senate Committee on Ageing in 1984 and in 1986 was FIRST Chairman of the Senate Children Services Committee. She was also FIRST woman to serve as Assistant Majority Leader in the history of the New Jersey Senate when appointed in 1988 and was FIRST woman President of the New Jersey State Association of Conservation Districts. She is the recipient of numerous awards, had her own cable television show and in 1976 was New Jersey Bicentennial Mother of the Year (P/L)
* Catherine Destivelle
born 1960
..... French mountaineer who was the FIRST woman to make a solo winter ascent of the North Wall of the Eiger in Switzerland in 1992 and the FIRST woman to make solo ascents of the Matterhorn and the Walker Spur in the Grandes Jorasses
* Catherine the Great
ne้ Sophia Augusta Frederica von Anhalt-Zerbst
born 2nd May 1729 died 10th November 1796
..... she arrived in Russia from Zerbst when she was 14 years old and never left it again. She was received into the Russian Orthodox Church when it was decided that she would marry the Grand Duke Peter and was given the name of Catherine Alexeievna, much to the dismay of her parents. After her wedding she never saw them again. When Peter died she became Empress and Russia flourished under her reign. She was a reformer, a legislator, a conqueror and a woman of culture and proved herself to be a capable ruler. She also edited Russia's FIRST literary review and in 1763 founded Russia's FIRST College of Medicine to train doctors, surgeons and apothecaries
* Catherine Jewel
..... FIRST motorist to be involved in a crash with the new Metrolink service in Manchester, England. She had to be cut free from the wreckage of her car after the head-on crash with the 50-ton truck and suffered abdominal injuries
* Catherine Joy
..... American who was the FIRST woman Port Chaplain for San Francisco in 1980/81 when appointed by the Episcopal Seamen's Service. The port of San Francisco is one of the world's toughest waterfronts and she had to visit many of the 1000 ships which docked there. Her duties included talking to and sharing the concerns of the men and to bring books and magazines from a Merchant Seamen's library service
* Catherine Kelly
..... in 1989 she made legal history when she became the FIRST person in Britain to receive an award which avoided the usual tax on interest earned from invested lump-sum damages. The award was given after she had been involved in a car crash in 1986 and suffered irreversible brain damage and in which her husband was severely injured and died nine days later. She was left in a coma since the accident and was on a life-support machine. Her life expectancy was 20 years and she was not expected to come out of the coma
* Catherine Lacoste
born 1945
..... at the age of 22 she was the FIRST European and FIRST amateur to win the US Women's Open when she took victory at Hot Springs, Virginia in 1967
* Catherine McConachie
..... FIRST woman Minister of the Church of Scotland in 1968
* Catherine McDowell
..... FIRST director at Barclays Bank specifically responsible for offshore banking
* Catherine Silverwood
..... at the age of 14 in 1991 she became the FIRST girl to be accepted for coaching at Wombwell Cricket Lovers Society in Barnsley
* Catherine Helen Spence
born 1825 died 1910
..... FIRST successful woman novelist in Australia when she wrote the FIRST novel of Australian life in 1854 - Clara Morison- A Tale of South Australia during the Gold Fever. She also wrote Australia's FIRST social studies textbook, The Laws We Live Under, in 1880. She wrote fiction for 30 years and was also a journalist and literary critic. In the 1870s she became involved in reform work and worked especially with destitute children. She also campaigned for better education facilities for girls and in 1861 published A Plea for Pure Democracy. In 1891 she became Vice-President of the Women's Suffrage League of South Australia. After suffrage was obtained in 1894 she continued to work for the national and international women's movements. In 1897 she was the FIRST woman to stand for an elected political seat
* Catherine Toy
..... the north west of England's FIRST female radio soccer commentator