Which prominent European politician was injured by a shot fired by Violet Gibson in 1926?
Violet Gibson Kingsthorpe Cemetery, Northampton. Violet Gibson The Honourable Violet Albina Gibson (31 August 1876 – 2 May 1956) was an Irish woman, the daughter of Lord Ashbourne. She attempted to assassinate Benito Mussolini in 1926. Gibson was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1876. Her father was an Irish lawyer and politician, Edward Gibson, who was created Baron Ashbourne in 1886. Her mother, Frances, was a Christian Scientist. Violet experimented with theosophy before becoming a Roman Catholic in 1902. On 7 April 1926, Gibson shot Mussolini, Italy's Fascist leader, as he walked among the crowd in the Piazza del Campidoglio in Rome
Frank Gibson (politician) netball facility in Fremantle, is named after him. Frank Gibson (politician) Sir Frank Ernest Gibson (11 July 1878 – 31 December 1965) was an Australian politician. Born at Egerton, Victoria, to Irish-born policeman Alexander Gibson and Louisa Herring, he attended Grenville College and the School of Mines at Ballarat before moving to Western Australia as a qualified pharmacist, setting up a business in Leonora in 1909. He married Jean Rodger Dunkley on 10 August 1911 at Kalgoorlie. In 1914 he moved to Fremantle, of which he was mayor for twenty-nine years (1919–23, 1926–51). Sir Frank gave his official farewell speech