Today’s investors should honour her for different reasons. In 1916, she rode to work in a motor scooter, shocking English society at the time. It was rare for women to use motor transport. This act of bravery put motor scooters on the map.
Lady Florence Norman is a name that most investors have forgotten. She was an English political activist who died in 1964.
Lady Norman campaigned for women’s right to vote. She wrote letters to the papers and organised protest marches. Her efforts finally bore fruit in 1928.
