Pat Arrowsmith, a well-known novelist and supporter of international peace, was born in England on March 2, 1930. Arrowsmith, the third youngest child, was born in Leamington Spa into a family of office employees. The Reverend G. E. Arrowsmith and Margaret Vera Arrowsmith were her parents.
Arrowsmith contributed to the founding of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), which was established in 1957. In her work as a peace activist, Arrowsmith has battled for causes like feminism, lesbianism, nuclear disarmament, the end of the Vietnam War, the departure of British troops from Northern Ireland, and the end of the Gulf War.
She advocated Troops Out of Ireland and gained support from the Trotskyist Socialist Unity party during her campaign as an Independent Socialist in the Cardiff South-East area of the 1979 British general election. Arrowsmith proceeded to mock Callaghan during his re-election acceptance speech.
After being found guilty of breaking Sections 1 and 2 of the Incitement to Disaffection Act 1934 by distributing fliers at a British army installation inciting soldiers to refuse to serve in Northern Ireland, Arrowsmith was given an 18-month prison sentence in 1974.
Who is Pat Arrowsmith’s ex-husband Donald Gardner?
Among the ex-husbands of Pat Arrowsmith, Donald Gardner is one of them. After only one day of marriage to poet Donald Gardner, Arrowsmith filed for divorce because she needed the union to inherit her father’s wealth.
