Mary Docherty, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetMary Docherty
20th-century Scottish activist
Date of Birth: 27-Apr-1908
Place of Birth: Cowdenbeath, Scotland, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 02-Feb-2000
Profession: autobiographer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
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.
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