List of British suffragists and suffragettes

This is a list of British suffragists and suffragettes who were born in the British Isles or whose lives and works are closely associated with it.

Suffragists and suffragettes

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  • Florence Earengey (1877–1963) – suffragette involved in multiple suffrage organisations; in charge of literature for the Cheltenham branch of the NUWSS
  • Louise Eates (1877–1944) – suffragette, chair of Kensington Women's Social and Political Union and a women's education activist
  • Maude Edwards (fl. 1914) – suffragette who was force-fed in prison despite having a heart condition
  • Norah Elam (1878–1961) – prominent member of the WSPU; imprisoned three times
  • Elizabeth Clarke Wolstenholme Elmy (1833–1918) – public speaker and writer; formed the first British suffragist society, first paid employee of the British Women's Movement
  • Dorothy Evans (1888–1944) – activist and organiser, worked for WSPU in England and the north of Ireland; imprisoned several times
  • Kate Williams Evans (1866–1961) – suffragette

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  • Jessie Newbery (1864–1948) – Scottish artist and embroiderer, member of the Women's Social and Political Union
  • Clara Neal (1870–1936) – English teacher, suffragette and cofounder of the Swansea branch of the Women's Freedom League in 1909[26]
  • Mary Neal (1860–1944) – social worker and collector of English folk dances
  • Elizabeth Neesom (c. 1797/98 – 30 November 1866) – prominent English Radical and Chartist
  • Marie du Sautoy Newby (1880–1962) – suffragette awarded the Hunger Strike Medal
  • Alison Roberta Noble Neilans (1884–1942) – activist, member of the executive committee of the Women's Freedom League
  • Margaret Nevinson (1858–1932) – JP, Poor Law guardian, playwright, member of the Church League for Women's Suffrage
  • Jessie Newbery (1864–1948) – artist and suffragist
  • Elizabeth Pease Nicholl (1807–1897) – abolitionist, anti-segregationist, suffragist, chartist and anti-vivisectionist
  • Helen Ogston (1882–1973) – Scottish suffragette known for interrupting David Lloyd George on 5 December 1908 at a meeting in the Royal Albert Hall and subsequently holding off the stewards with a dog whip
  • Ada Nield Chew (1870–1945) – socialist and suffragist organiser

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  • Elizabeth Margaret Pace (1866–1957) – Scottish doctor, suffragist and advocate for women's health and women's rights
  • Adela Pankhurst (1885–1961) – political organizer, co-founder of the Communist Party of Australia and the Australia First Movement
  • Christabel Pankhurst (1880–1958) – co-founder and leader of the WSPU
  • Emmeline Pankhurst (1858–1928) – a main founder and the leader of the British Suffragette Movement
  • Sylvia Pankhurst (1882–1960) – campaigner and anti-fascism activist
  • Frances Mary "Fanny" Parker OBE (1875–1924) – New Zealand-born suffragette prominent in the militant wing of the Scottish women's suffrage movement and repeatedly imprisoned for her actions
  • Grace Paterson (1843–1925) – school board member, temperance activist, suffragist, and founder of the Glasgow School of Cookery
  • Isabella Bream Pearce (1859–1929) – Scottish socialist propagandist and suffrage campaigner
  • Annie Seymour Pearson (born 1878) – work based suffrage activist who ran a safe house for suffragettes evading police[27]
  • Fanny Pease ARRC (1866–1946)- civilian and military nurse, suffragette
  • Edith Pechey (1845–1908) – campaigner for women's rights, involved in a range of social causes
  • Pleasance Pendred (1864–1948) – suffragette
  • Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence (1867–1954) – member of the Suffrage Society, secretary WSPU
  • Leonora Philipps (1862–1915) – Liberal suffragist, president of Welsh Union of Women's Liberal Associations and co-founder of the Pioneer Club
  • Emily Phipps (1865–1943) – English teacher, barrister and suffragette
  • Caroline Phillips (1874–1956) – feminist, suffragette, journalist and honorary secretary of the Aberdeen branch of the WSPU
  • Catherine Pine (1864–1941) – nurse, suffragette
  • Ellen Pitfield (1857–1912) – suffragette who sustained injuries at Black Friday and who set a fire at the King Edward Street Post office in London
  • Isabella Potbury (1890–1965) – portrait painter, suffragette
  • Aileen Preston (1889–1974) – Emmeline Pankhurst's chauffeur and the first woman in history to qualify for the Automobile Association Certificate in Driving[28]

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  • Myra Sadd Brown (1872–1938) – suffragette activist in the WSPU, imprisoned and force-fed
  • Lavena Saltonstall (1881–1957) – suffragette, activist for the Women's Labour League and WSPU and writer of column "The Letters of a Tailoress" for the Halifax Guardian
  • Amy Sanderson (born c. 1875-6) – Scottish suffragette, imprisoned twice, executive member of WFL
  • Margaret Sandhurst (1828–1892) – one of the first women elected to a city council in the United Kingdom
  • Jessie Saxby (1842–1940) – author, folklorist and suffragette
  • Alice Schofield (1881–1975) – suffragette and politician who was the first woman councillor in Middlesbrough
  • Amelia Scott (1860–1952) – suffragette, established `the ‘Leisure Hour Club for Young Women in Business’ in Tunbridge Wells and participated in the suffrage ‘pilgrimage’ to London organised by the Kentish Federation of Women’s Suffrage Societies
  • Arabella Scott (1886–1980) – Scottish suffragette who endured five weeks of solitary confinement in Perth prison and force feeding twice a day

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  • Jane Taylour (1827–1905) – suffragist and women's movement campaigner
  • Janie Terrero (1858–1944) – militant suffragette
  • Dora Thewlis (1890–1976) – activist
  • Agnes Thomson (born 1846) – Scottish suffragette, member of Edinburgh WSPU, missionary in India
  • Elizabeth Thomson (born 1848) – Scottish suffragette, member of Edinburgh WSPU, hunger striker, missionary in India
  • Elizabeth Thompson (1846–1933) – prominent painter
  • Muriel Thompson (1875–1939) – World War I ambulance driver, racing driver and suffragist
  • Violet Tillard (1874–1922) – nurse, pacifist, supporter of conscientious objectors, relief worker
  • Isabella Tod (1836–1896) – Scottish suffragist, women's rights campaigner in the north of Ireland, helped women secure the municipal franchise in Belfast.
  • Aethel Tollemache (c. 1875–1955) – member of the Bath WSPU branch, went on hunger strike in Holloway Prison
  • Catherine Tolson (1890–1924) – suffragette
  • Helen Tolson (1888–1955) – suffragette
  • Florence Tunks (1891–1985) – suffragette
  • Minnie Turner (1866–1948) – ran a guest house, the "Sea View", in Brighton

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  • Julia Varley (1871–1952) - trade unionist
  • Alice Vickery (1844–1929) – doctor, the first British woman to qualify as a chemist and pharmacist and delegate to the Congress of the International Women’s Suffrage Alliance in Amsterdam in 1908

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  • Melvina Walker (born 1874) – suffragette and working class activist
  • Marion Wallace Dunlop (1864–1942) – suffragette, went on hunger strike after being arrested for militancy
  • Olive Grace Walton (1886–1937) – suffragette
  • Elizabeth (Bessie) Watson (1900–1992) – child suffragette and piper
  • Mona Chalmers Watson (1872–1936) – physician and head of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps
  • Harriet Shaw Weaver (1876–1961) – political activist, magazine editor
  • Edith Splatt (1873?–1945) - dressmaker, journalist, councillor in Devon
  • Beatrice Webb (1858–1943) – sociologist, economist, socialist, labour historian, social reformer
  • Vera Wentworth (1890–1957) – went to Holloway for the cause and was force fed. She door stepped and then assaulted the Prime Minister twice. She wrote "Three Months in Holloway".
  • Rebecca West (1892–1983) – author, journalist, literary critic, travel writer
  • Olive Wharry (1886–1947) – artist, arsonist
  • Eliza Wigham (1820–1899) – suffragist and abolitionist
  • Jane Wigham (1801–1888) – suffragist and abolitionist
  • Ellen Wilkinson (1891–1947) – politician, member of parliament, served as minister of education
  • Gertrude Wilkinson (1851–1929) – militant suffragette and member of the Women's Social and Political Union
  • Laetitia Withall (1881–1963) – poet, author and militant suffragette
  • Celia Wray (1872–1954) – suffragette and architect
  • I.A.R. Wylie (1885–1959) – Australian writer, suffragette in UK, working on The Suffragette
  • Barbara Wylie (1861–1954) – organiser of the Glasgow branch of the WSPU, went on a speaking tour of Canada and gave a speech that inspired the slogan "deeds not words"

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See also

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