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.

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Suffragists and suffragettes

A

• Wilhelmina Hay Abbott (1884–1957) – editor and feminist lecturer, officer of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance
• Violet Aitken (1886–1987) – suffragette activist in the WSPU, imprisoned and force-fed, editor of The Suffragette
• Margaret Aldersley (1852–1940) – suffragist, feminist and trade unionist
• Mary Ann Aldham (1858–1940) – famously slashed a portrait in the Royal Academy in 1914
• Janie Allan (1868–1968) – suffragette activist and significant financial supporter of the WSPU; imprisoned for suffrage activities
• Doreen Allen (1879–1963) – militant suffragette

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  Louisa Garrett Anderson

  Mary Sophia Allen (1878–1964) – women's rights activist, pioneer policewoman, later involved in far-right political activity
• Katharine Russell, Viscountess Amberley (1844–1874) – early advocate of birth control, president of the Bristol and West of England Women's Suffrage Society
• Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836–1917) – physician, feminist, first dean of a British medical school, first female mayor, and magistrate in Britain
• Louisa Garrett Anderson (1873–1943) – Chief Surgeon of Women's Hospital Corps, Fellow of Royal Society of Medicine, jailed for her suffragist activities
• Rhoda Anstey (1865–1936) – teacher, member of the WFL and one of the earliest members of the Gymnastic Suffrage Society^[1]
• Helen Archdale (1876–1949) – suffragette and journalist
• Catherine Arnott (1858–1942) – medical doctor and member of the Coventry branch of the WSPU
• Jane Arthur (1827–1907) – educationalist, feminist and activist; campaigned for women's suffrage
• Margaret Ashton (1856–1937) – suffragist, local politician, pacifist
• Anne Ashworth (1842–1921) – suffragist and a founder member of the London National Society for Women's Suffrage
• Barbara Ayrton-Gould (1886–1950) – Labour politician and co-founder of the United Suffragists; jailed for her suffrage activities

B

• Bertha Bacon (1866–1922) – suffragette, arrested and imprisoned for smashing three windows of the dining room at the Westminster Palace Hotel^[2]
• Mary Anne Baikie (1861–1950) – Scottish suffragist who established the Orcadian Women's Suffrage Society
• Sarah Jane Baines (1866–1951) – feminist and social reformer; jailed at least fifteen times

  

  Minnie Baldock, Christabel Pankhurst and Edith New

• Minnie Baldock (c. 1864 – 1954) – co-founded the first London branch of the WSPU^[3]
• Frances Balfour (1858–1931) – president of the National Society for Women's Suffrage
• Florence Balgarnie (1856–1928) – suffragette, speaker, pacifist, feminist, temperance activist
• Norah Balls (1886–1980) - Suffragette, women’s right campaigner, magistrate and councillor, co-founder of the Girl Guides movement in Northumberland.

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  Rachel Barrett

  Rachel Barrett (1874–1953) – member of the WSPU; editor of The Suffragette
• Janet Barrowman (1879–1955) – Scottish member of the WSPU; jailed for her suffragist activities
• Dorothea Beale (1831–1906) – educational reformer, author, Principal of the Cheltenham Ladies' College
• Harriette Beanland (born 1866) – British textile worker and Suffragette
• Lydia Becker (1827–1890) – biologist and astronomer, founder and publisher of the Women's Suffrage Journal
• Edith Marian Begbie (1866–1932) – militant suffragette who was force-fed

  

  Rosa May Billinghurst demonstrating in her wheelchair

• Elizabeth Bell (1862–1934) – first woman to practice medicine in Ulster, WPSU militant
• Mary Bell (1885–1943) – first Scottish women magistrate
• Sarah Benett (1850–1924) – Treasurer of the WFL and suffragette
• Ethel Bentham (1861–1931) – doctor, politician, member of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
• Rosa May Billinghurst (1875–1953) – member of the WSPU and founder of the Greenwich branch; jailed multiple times
• Teresa Billington-Greig (1877–1964) – co-founder of Women's Freedom League; jailed for her suffragist activities
• Catherine Hogg Blair (1872–1946) – Scottish suffragette and founder of the Scottish Women's Rural Institute, and member of the WSPU
• Violet Bland (1863–1940) – member of the WSPU, force-fed in prison

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  Mary Blathwayt in 1909

  Emily Blathwayt (1852–1940) – suffragist who lived at Eagle House
• Mary Blathwayt (1879–1961) – suffragist who lived at Eagle House
• Barbara Bodichon (1827–1891) – educationalist, artist, feminist, activist for women's rights
• Lillie Boileau (1869–1930) – early member of the Women's Freedom League and the Union of Ethical Societies
• Margaret Bondfield (1873–1953) – politician, chair of the Adult Suffrage Society, first woman Cabinet minister in the United Kingdom
• Elsie Bowerman (1889–1973) – lawyer, member of the WSPU, RMS Titanic survivor
• Janet Boyd (1850–1928) – militant suffragette and hunger-striker
• Jane Esdon Brailsford (1876–1937) – Scottish suffragette
• Agnes Brown (1866–1943) – Scottish suffragist and writer
• Annie Leigh Browne (1851–1936) – co-founder of College Hall, London and of Women's Local Government Society
• Constance Bryer (1870–1952) – member of the WSPU and the Church League for Women's Suffrage (CLWS)
• Evaline Hilda Burkitt (1876–1955) – first suffragette to be force-fed
• Frances Buss (1827–1894) – headmistress, pioneer of women's education, member of the Kensington Society
• Josephine Butler (1828–1906) – feminist, author, social reformer concerned about the welfare of prostitutes
• Mary Burton (1819–1909), a Scottish social and educational reformer, and supporter of the Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage

C

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  Patricia Woodlock and Mabel Capper

  Edward Caird (1835–1908) – founder member of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women's Suffrage
• Mona Caird (1854–1932) – English novelist and essayist who wrote in support of women's suffrage
• Florence Canning (1863–1914) – chair of the executive committee of the Church League for Women's Suffrage
• Mabel Capper (1888–1966) – activist in the WSPU; imprisoned many times, and force-fed
• Isabella Carrie (1878–1981) – schoolteacher and safe house keeper for the WSPU
• Dorothea Chalmers Smith (1874–1944) – doctor and suffragist
• Lady Edith Helen Chaplin (1878–1959) - Marchioness of Londonderry, served on a number of women's associations
• Adeline Chapman (1847–1931) - president of the New Constitutional Society for Women's Suffrage
• Georgina Fanny Cheffins (1863–1932) – arrested for window smashing, held in HM Prison Holloway, force-fed
• Jane Clapperton (1832–1914) – philosopher, birth control pioneer, social reformer and suffragist
• Alice Clark (1874–1934), served on the executive committee of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
• Mary Jane Clarke (1862–1910) – arrested for window smashing, held in HM Prison Holloway, force-fed

  

  Jane Cobden

• Lila Clunas (1876–1968) – Scottish suffragette and Labour party councillor
• Jane Cobden (1851–1947) – Liberal politician who was active in many radical causes; co-founder of the Women's Franchise League
• Ellen Melicent Cobden (1848–1914) – writer and activist who donated funds to the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) and participated in the Women’s Suffrage Procession, organized by the Women’s Freedom League^[4]
• Leonora Cohen (1873–1978) – militant British suffragette and trade unionist; bodyguard for Emmeline Pankhurst
• Florence Annie Conybeare (1872–1916) – campaigned in support of women's suffrage, organized a meeting of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
• Selina Cooper (1864–1946) – textile mill worker, local magistrate, member of the North of England Society for Women's Suffrage
• Catherine Corbett (1869–1950) – British suffragette; jailed and went on hunger strike
• Annie Coultate (1856–1931) – teacher and founder of the local WSPU branch in York^[5]
• Ethel Cox (born 1888) – British suffragette who smashed windows at the house of the home secretary
• Isabel Cowe (1867–1931) – Scottish suffragist who helped organise the 400-mile Scottish Suffrage March from Edinburgh to Downing Street, London to present a petition for women's enfranchisement^[6]
• Annie Walker Craig (1864–1948) – British suffragette involved in rock-throwing and arson in England and Scotland
• Jessie Craigen (c. 1835 – 1899) – working-class suffragist who gave speeches all around the country
• Muriel Craigie (1889–1971) - Scottish suffragist, and war volunteer organiser
• Virginia Mary Crawford (1862–1948) – Catholic suffragist, journalist and author, a founder of the Catholic Women's Suffrage Society
• Helen Crawfurd (1877–1954) – suffragette, rent strike organiser and communist activist
• Maud Crofts (born 1889) – suffragist, author and first woman accepted as a solicitor^[7][8]
• Richmal Crompton (1890–1969) – schoolmistress and writer
• Mary Crudelius (1839–1877) – early supporter of women's suffrage and campaigner for women's education
• Helen Cruickshank (1886–1975) – Scottish poet and suffragette
• Jessie Landale Cumberland (1861–1935) – suffragette awarded the Hunger Strike Medal

D

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  Front page of the Daily Sketchon 9 June 1913, reporting the death of Emily Wilding Davison

  Emily Davies (1830–1921) – co-founder of Kensington Society and Britain's first women's college, Girton College, Cambridge
• Emily Wilding Davison (1872–1913) – militant activist, key member of the WSPU, died in a protest action at a racetrack
• Margaret Davidson (suffragist) (1879–1978) – suffragist, volunteer war nurse, and early leader of the Girl Guides

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  Lillian Dove-Willcox in 1911

  John McAusland Denny (1858–1922) – Scottish businessman, Conservative Party politician and founder member of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women's Suffrage
• Charlotte Despard (1844–1939) – novelist, Sinn Féin activist, co-founder of the Women's Freedom League
• Agnes Dollan (1887–1966) – Scottish suffragette, political activist and pacifist
• Violet Mary Doudney (1889–1952) – teacher and militant suffragette
• Katherine Douglas Smith (born 1878) – militant suffragette and WSPU organiser
• Lillian Dove-Willcox (1875–1963) – suffragette who was a member of Emmeline Pankhurst's personal bodyguard
• Flora Drummond (1878–1949) – organiser for WSPU, imprisoned nine times for her activism in Women's Suffrage movement, inspiring orator nicknamed "the General"
• Bessie Drysdale (1871–1950) – member of the WSPU National Executive Committee, one of the 52 women arrested during a suffragette march to the House of Commons in 1907, and writer for the short lived radical feminist magazine The Freewoman (1911–1913)^[9]

  

  Elsie Duval

• Charles Vickery Drysdale (1874–1961) – one of the founding members of the Men’s League for Women’s Suffrage in 1907^[10]
• Marion Wallace Dunlop (1864–1942) – artist and suffragette
• Elsie Duval (1892–1919) – member of WSPU and first woman released under the Cat and Mouse Act

E

• 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

F

• 

  Statue of Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square

  Caprina Fahey (1883–1959) – received the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) Hunger Strike Medal "for Valour" in 1914^[11]
• Margaret Milne Farquharson (1884–c. 1936) – Scottish suffragette, MP candidate and leader of the National Political League campaigning for Palestine
• Millicent Fawcett (1847–1929) – feminist, writer, political and union leader; president of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
• Helen Fraser (1881–1979) – suffragist, speaker and artist
• Elizabeth Fry (1780–1845) – prison reformer, social reformer, philanthropist

G

• Edith Margaret Garrud (1872–1971) – first trainer of 'the Bodyguard', formed in response to the Cat and Mouse Act
• Elizabeth Finlayson Gauld (c. 1863 – 1941) - suffrage campaigner based in Edinburgh
• Katharine Gatty (1870–1952) – journalist, lecturer and militant suffragette for the WSPU
• Mary Gawthorpe (1881–1973) – socialist, trade unionist, editor, active in the suffrage movement in both England and the United States
• Ellison Scotland Gibb (1879–1970) – suffragette and chess player
• Margaret Skirving Gibb (1877–1954) – suffragette and chess player
• Marion Gilchrist (1864–1952) – doctor and suffragist
• Helga Gill (1885–1928) – Norwegian-born British suffragist who spoke at meetings
• Katie Edith Gliddon (1883–1967) – watercolour artist and militant suffragette
• Nellie Godfrey – suffragette, who was awarded the Hunger Strike Medal
• Frances Gordon (born c. 1874) – prominent in the militant wing of the Scottish women's suffrage movement; imprisoned and force-fed
• Eva Gore-Booth (1870–1926) – member of the executive committee of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies and co-secretary of the Manchester and Salford Women's Trade Union Council
• Gerald Gould (1885–1936) – writer, known as a journalist, reviewer, essayist, and poet; co-founder of United Suffragists
• Mary Pollock Grant (1876–1957) – Scottish suffragette, Liberal Party politician, missionary and policewoman
• Joan Lavender Bailie Guthrie (1889–1914) – British suffragette, and member of the Women's Social and Political Union
• Elsa Gye (1881–1943) – Scottish suffragette, imprisoned for the cause, led WSPU branches in Nottingham and Newcastle
• Joan Lavender Bailie Guthrie (Laura Grey) (1888–1914) – suffragette and actress, imprisoned for window smashing

H

• 

  Cicely Hamilton in 1907

  Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale (1883–1967) – actress, lectured and wrote on women's rights
• Edith Hacon (1875–1952) – suffragist from Dornoch, World War One nursing volunteer and international socialite
• Florence Haig (1856–1952) – Scottish artist and suffragette who was decorated for imprisonments and hunger strikes.
• Cicely Hale (1884–1981) – health visitor and author; worked for the WSPU and The Suffragette
• Nellie Hall (1895–1929) – god-daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst, member of the WSPU; imprisoned twice
• Lilias Ashworth Hallett (1844–1922) – suffragist
• Marie Frances Lisette Hanbury, Baroness Willoughby de Broke (1868–1941) – member of the Conservative and Unionist Women's Franchise Association
• Hazel Hunkins Hallinan (1890–1982) – American women's rights activist, journalist, and suffragist who moved to Britain and was active in the movement there
• Cicely Hamilton (1872–1952) – actress, writer, journalist, feminist
• Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon (1857–1939) – author, philanthropist, and an advocate of woman's interests
• Marion Coates Hansen (1870–1947) – early member of the WSPU, co-founder of the Women's Freedom League
• Keir Hardie (1856–1915) – Scottish founder of the Labour Party, later a campaigner for women's suffrage
• Emily J. Harding (1850–1940) – British artist, illustrator and suffragette
• Lillian Mary Harris (1887–1964) – English militant suffragette
• Mary Dormer Harris (1867–1936) – suffragist, writer and organiser of local conferences in the Midlands^[12]
• Jane Ellen Harrison (1850–1928) – linguist, feminist, co-founder of modern studies in Greek mythology, supporter of women's suffrage
• Kate Harvey (1862–1946) – participated in the Women's Tax Resistance League and was jailed for her refusal to pay tax if she were not allowed the right to vote

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  Evelina Haverfield

  Evelina Haverfield (1867–1920) – aid worker and nurse in WWI, member of the WSPU, arrested several times
• Alice Hawkins (1863–1946) – suffragette jailed five times for militant action
• Annie Elizabeth Helme (1874–1963) – suffragist, JP, first female mayor of Lancaster in 1932.^[13]
• Mary H. J. Henderson (1874–1938) – honorary secretary of Dundee Women's Suffrage Society, and administrator with Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service
• Elizabeth Ellen (Beth) Hesmondhalgh active 1907–1914, Hunger Strike Medal recipient
• Margaret Hills (1882–1967) – teacher, public speaker, feminist and socialist; organizer of the NUWSS Election Fighting Fund
• Edith Mary Hinchley (1870–1940) – artist and member of the Women's Freedom League

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  Vera Holme in 1910

  

  Clemence Housman in 1910

  Reverend Claude Hinscliff (1875–1964) – founder of the [Anglican] Church League for Women's Suffrage^[14][15]
• Emily Hobhouse (1860–1926) – exposed the squalid conditions in concentration camps in South Africa during the Second Boer War; active in the People's Suffrage Federation
• Margaret Emily Hodge (1858–1938) – educator, suffragist and pacifist
• Olive Hockin (1881–1936) – artist and author; imprisoned after arson attacks suspected to be suffragette-related
• Vera Holme (1881–1969) – actress, driver and chauffeur for the Pankhursts'
• Winifred Holtby (1898–1935) – feminist, socialist, and writer, including a new voters guide for women in 1929
• Edith Sophia Hooper (1868–1926) – suffragist and biographer of Josephine Butler
• Winifred Horrabin (1887–1971) – socialist activist, journalist, member of the WSPU
• Clemence Housman (1861–1955) – author, illustrator, co-founder of the Suffrage Atelier
• Laurence Housman (1865–1959) – playwright, writer, illustrator, co-founder of the Suffrage Atelier
• Elizabeth How-Martyn (1875–1954) – member of the WSPU and co-founder of the Women's Freedom League
• Elsie Howey (1884 –1963) – suffragette who was jailed at least six times and dressed as Joan of Arc during a WSPU demonstration in London
• Ellen Hughes (1867–1927) – Welsh writer, poet, suffragist
• Florence Hull (born 1878) – suffragette, member of WSPU, imprisoned in January 1913
• Agnes Husband (1852–1929) – Scottish politician and suffragette

I

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  Elsie Inglis

  Charlotte Iliffe, Baroness Iliffe (1881–1972) – aristocrat, philanthropist and suffragist who was a member of the Coventry Women's Suffrage Society
• Elsie Inglis (1864–1917) – Scottish doctor, secretary of the Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage
• Margaret Irwin (1858–1940) – trade unionist, suffragist and founder member of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women's Suffrage

J

• Christina Jamieson (1864–1942) – writer and suffragette
• Maud Joachim (1869–1947) – suffragette who was one of the first suffragettes to go on hunger strike
• Ellen Isabel Jones (died 1948) – suffragette and close associate of the Pankhursts
• Helena Jones (1870–1946) – Welsh doctor and member of the WSPU
• Mabel Jones (1865–1923) – doctor and suffragette
• Violet Key Jones (1883–1958) - treasurer of the WSPU branch in York

K

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  Annie Kenney in 1909

  Annie Kenney (1879–1953) – leading figure in the WSPU

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  Harriet Kerr in 1913

  Jessie Kenney (1887–1985) – leading suffragette, assaulted the British prime minister and the home secretary at golf course
• Nell Kenney (1876–1953) – suffragette
• Jessie Keppie (1868–1951) – artist and subscriber to Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women's Suffrage
• Alice Stewart Ker (1853–1943) – doctor, health educator and suffragette
• Harriet Kerr (1859–1940) – office manager of the WSPU headquarters
• Edith Key (1872–1937) – secretary-organiser of the WSPU, Huddersfield branch, and author of the only surviving regional WSPU minute book
• Mary Stewart Kilgour (1851–1955) – educationalist and writer, co-founder of the Union of Practical Suffragists
• Adelaide Knight, (1871–1950) – secretary for the WSPU in Canning Town^[16][17]
• Anne Knight (1786–1862) – social reformer, pioneer of feminism, early suffragette and pamphleteer
• Annie Knight (1895–2006) – suffragette in Aberdeen Scotland

L

• Agnes Lake (1887–1972) – business manager of the WSPU’s newspaper The Suffragette and hunger striker
• Aeta Adelaide Lamb (1886–1928) – longest serving organiser in the WSPU
• George Lansbury (1859–1940) – social reformer and politician who allied himself with the WSPU
• Jennie Lee (1904–1988) – Scottish politician, elected MP aged 24 in 1929 by-election before suffrage was extended to women under 30
• Harriet Leisk (1853–1921) - chair of the Shetland Women's Suffrage Society
• Lilian Lenton (1891–1972) – active member of the WSPU, winner of a French Red Cross for her service in WWI
• Victoria Lidiard (1889–1992) – WPSU member and reputed to be the longest surviving British Suffragette^[18]
• Anna Lindsay (activist) (1845–1903), Scottish women's rights activist
• Thomas Martin Lindsay (1843–1914) – Scottish historian, professor and founder member of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women's Suffrage
• Gertrude Golda Lowy (1887–1982) – suffragette awarded the Hunger Strike Medal and member of the WSPU and Jewish League for Woman Suffrage
• Margaret Bright Lucas (1818–1890) – temperance activist and suffragist
• Louisa Lumsden (1840–1935) - pioneer of female education and suffrage speaker
• Kathleen Lyttelton (1856–1907) – women's activist, editor and writer
• Lady Constance Lytton (1869–1923) – speaker and campaigner for prison reform, votes for women, and birth control

M

• Florence Macfarlane (1867–1947) – nurse and militant member of the WSPU
• Marion Mackenzie (born 1873) – medical doctor and suffragette, cofounded the WSPU branch in Scarborough
• Margaret Mackworth (1883–1958) – activist and director of more than thirty companies
• Sarah Mair (1846–1941) – campaigner for women's education and suffrage
• Lavinia Malcolm (1847–1920) – Scottish suffragist and local Liberal Movement politician, the first Scottish woman to be elected to a local council (1907) and the first woman Lord Provost of a Scottish burgh town, in Dollar, Clackmannanshire
• Kate Manicom (1893–1937), British suffragette and trade unionist
• Flora Masson (1856–1937) - nurse, suffragist, writer and editor
• Edith Mansell Moullin (1859–1941) – suffragist, settlement worker, and Welsh feminist organisation founder

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  Mildred Mansel in 1910

  Mildred Mansel (1868–1942) – organiser for the WSPU in Bath
• Kitty Marion (1871–1944) – actress and political activist
• Dora Marsden (1882–1960) – anarcho-feminist, editor of literary journals, and philosopher of language
• Charlotte Marsh (1842–1909) – joined the WSPU in March 1907, set up the Independent WSPU in March 1916
• Selina Martin (1882–1972) – activist
• Harriet Martineau (1802–1876) – social theorist and writer
• Eleanor Marx (1855–1898) – activist and translator
• Flora Masson (1856–1937) – nurse, editor and writer
• Muriel Matters (1877–1969) – Australian-born suffragist who campaigned with the Women's Freedom League
• Helen Matthews – Scottish suffragette and women's footballer
• Isabella Fyvie Mayo (1843–1914) – poet, novelist, suffragist, and reformer
• Mary Macarthur (1880–1921) – general secretary of the Women's Trade Union League and was involved in the formation of the National Federation of Women Workers and National Anti-Sweating League
• Ann Macbeth (1875–1948) – artist and suffragist
• Lilly Maxwell (1800–1876) – suffragist
• Winifred Mayo (1869–1967) – actress and co-founder of the Actresses' Franchise League
• Elspeth McClelland (1879–1920) – architect and suffragette, 'human letter' sent with Daisy Solomon
• Janet McCallum (1881–1946) – trade unionist and suffragist
• Margaret McCoubrey (1880–1955) – Belfast WSPU militant, pacifist, co-operatist.
• Elizabeth McCracken (1871–1944) – feminist writer (" L.A.M. Priestley"), Belfast WSPU militant, refused wartime political truce with the government.
• Agnes Syme Macdonald (1882–1966) – Scottish suffragette who served as the secretary of the Edinburgh branch of the WSPU before setting up the Edinburgh Women Citizens Association (WCA) in 1918
• Louisa Macdonald (1858–1949) - educationalist and suffragist
• Agnes McLaren (1837–1913) – doctor and secretary of the Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage alongside her stepmother, Priscilla Bright McLaren
• Alice McLaren (1860–1945) – doctor, gynaecologist, suffragist and advocate for women's health and women's rights
• Eva McLaren (1852–1921) – suffragist, writer, and political campaigner
• Priscilla Bright McLaren (1815–1906) – anti-slavery activist, Scottish suffragist, founder and president of Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage
• Chrystal Macmillan (1872–1937) – politician, barrister, feminist and pacifist
• Frances McPhun (1880–1940) – suffragette who served two months in Holloway prison, sister of Margaret McPhun
• Margaret McPhun (1876–1960) – suffragette who served two months in Holloway prison, sister of Frances McPhun
• Margaret Sara Meggitt (1866–1920), British political activist and suffragette
• Frances Melville (1873–1962) – suffragist, advocate for higher education for women in Scotland, and one of the first women to matriculate at the University of Edinburgh
• Gertrude Metcalfe-Shaw, (born 1864), hunger striker^[19]
• Lillian Metge (1871–1954) – bombed Christ Church Cathedral, Lisburn, WSPU Hunger Strike medallist
• Jessie C. Methven (1854–1917) – Scottish suffragist, suffragette, honorary secretary of Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage, joined WSPU 1906
• Alice Meynell (1847–1922) – editor, writer, and poet
• Harriet Taylor Mill (1807–1858) – philosopher and women's rights advocate
• John Stuart Mill (1806–1873) – philosopher, political economist, and civil servant
• Hannah Mitchell (1872–1956) – activist
• Graham Moffat (1866–1951) – actor, director, playwright and spiritualist. Husband of Maggie Moffat and founder of the Men's League for Women's Suffrage
• Maggie Moffat (1873–1943) – British actor and suffragette
• Dora Montefiore (1851–1933) – activist and writer
• Decima Moore (1871–1964) – actress and co-founder of the Actresses' Franchise League
• Ethel Moorhead (1869–1955) – suffragette and painter
• Anna Munro (1881–1962) – activist
• Mary Murdoch (1864–1916) - physician and suffragist
• Eunice Murray (1878–1960) – suffragist, and only Scottish woman who stood for election when UK elections were opened to women in 1918
• Flora Murray (1869–1923) – medical pioneer and activist
• Frances Murray (1843–1919) – a suffragist raised in Scotland, an advocate of women's education, a lecturer in Scottish music and a writer
• Sylvia Murray (1875–1955) – suffragette and author, the sister of suffragette Eunice Guthrie Murray
• Margaret Mylne (1806–1892) – Scottish suffragette and writer

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  Hunger Strike Medal awarded to Marie du Sautoy Newby

  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^[20]
• 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) – organiser
• Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) – celebrated social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing

O

• Emily Rosaline Orme (1835–1915) – member of the Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage

P

• 

  Emmeline Pankhurst (left) and Christabel Pankhurst (centre) and Sylvia Pankhurst at Waterloo Station in 1911

  Elizabeth Margaret Pace (1866–1957) – Scottish doctor, suffragist and advocate for women's health and women's rights

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  Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence and Frederick William Lawrence

  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^[21]
• 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^[22]

R

• Clara Rackham (1875–1966) – magistrate, prison reformer, factory inspector, long-serving alderman and city councillor in Cambridge
• Jane Rae (1872–1959) – political activist, suffragette, councillor and justice of the peace
• Eleanor Rathbone (1872–1946) – campaigner for women's rights
• Marion Kirkland Reid (1815–1902) – feminist and writer
• Mary Reid (1880–1921) – Scottish trades unionist
• Margaret Mackworth, 2nd Viscountess Rhondda (1883–1955) – WSPU member, journalist, businesswoman, founder of the feminist periodical Time and Tide
• Mary Richardson (1882–1961) – Canadian suffragette, arsonist, head of the women's section of the British Union of Fascists
• Edith Rigby (1872–1948) – founder of St. Peter's School, prominent activist
• Margaret Robertson (1892–1967) – campaigner; organiser of the Election Fighting Fund
• Elizabeth Robins (1862–1952) – Ibsen actress, playwright, public speaker, novelist
• Annot Robinson (1874–1925) – née Wilkie, nicknamed Annie, pacifist and suffragette^[23][24]

  

  British Indian suffragists on the Women's Coronation Procession of 1911, including Bhagwati Bhola Nauth and Lolita Roy on the left

• Rona Robinson (1881–1973) – suffragette and in 1905 the first woman in the United Kingdom to gain a first-class degree in chemistry
• Esther Roper (1868–1938) – social justice campaigner
• Arnold Stephenson Rowntree (1872–1951) – MP, philanthropist, and suffragist
• Lolita Roy (born 1865) – believed to have been an important organizer of the Women's Coronation Procession (a suffrage march in London) in 1911, and marched as part of it with either her sisters or her daughters^[25][26]
• Agnes Royden (1876–1956) – preacher
• Bertha Ryland (1882–1977) – militant suffragette who slashed a painting in Birmingham Art Gallery in 1914

S

• 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 c1875-6) – 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

• May Seaton-Tiedeman (1862–1948) – American-born campaigner in Britain for divorce law reform and suffragist
• Evelyn Sharp (suffragist) (1869–1955) – journalist on The Manchester Guardian, short story writer, tax resister, founder of the United Suffragists
• Genie Sheppard (1863–1953) – medical doctor and militant suffragette
• Alice Maud Shipley (1869–1951) – suffragist who went on hunger strike in Holloway Prison and who was force fed

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  Sophia Duleep Singh selling The Suffragette newspaper in 1913

  Isabel Giberne Sieveking (1857–1936) – suffragette and writer, member of the WSPU in Hastings^[27]
• Frances Simson (1854–1938) – suffragist, campaigner for women's higher education and one of the first of eight women graduates from the University of Edinburgh
• May Sinclair (1863–1946) – member of the Woman Writers' Suffrage League
• Sophia Duleep Singh (1876–1948) – had leading roles in the Women's Tax Resistance League, and the WSPU
• Margaret Skinnider (1892–1971)
• Ethel Smyth (1858–1944) – composer of "The March of the Women", writer

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  Ethel Smyth, composer and suffragette

  Mary Anderson Snodgrass (1862–1945) – politician, suffragist and advocate for women's rights, member of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women's Suffrage
• Ethel Snowden (1881–1951) – socialist, human rights activist, feminist politician
• Jessie M. Soga (1870–1954) - Xhosa/Scottish contralto singer, music teacher and suffragist. She was described as the only black suffrage campaigner based in Scotland.
• Daisy Solomon (1882–1978) – South African born, member of WSPU, sent as 'human letter' with Elspeth McClelland, daughter of Georgiana Solomon
• Georgiana Solomon (1844–1933) – Scottish member of the WSPU, South African temperance activist
• Mary Somerville (1780–1872) – science writer and polymath
• Emma Sproson (1867–1936) – women's rights activist
• Catherine Helen Spence (1825–1910) – Scottish-born Australian author, teacher, journalist, politician & leading suffragist
• Emily Spender (1841–1922) – novelist and suffragette
• Lady Barbara Steel (1857–1943) – Scottish suffragist and tax resister
• Jessie Stephen (1893–1979) – working class suffragette and trade union activist
• Flora Stevenson (1839–1905) – Scottish social reformer with interest in education for poor or neglected children
• Louisa Stevenson (1835–1908) – Scottish campaigner for women's university education, effective, well-organised nursing
• Charlotte Carmichael Stopes (1840–1929) – scholar, author, and campaigner for women's rights
• Una Harriet Ella Stratford Duval (née Dugdale) (1879–1975) – suffragette and marriage reformer
• Lucy Deane Streatfeild (1865–1950) – civil servant, social worker, one of the first female factory inspectors in UK
• Ann Swaine (born in or before 1821–1883) – writer and advocate for women's higher education
• Annie S. Swan (1859–1943) – journalist, novelist and story writer
• Helena Swanwick (1864–1939) – feminist, pacifist

T

• Jane Taylour (1827–1905) – suffragist and women's movement campaigner
• Janie Terrero (1858–1944) – militant suffragette
• Dora Thewlis (1890–1976) – activist
• Fanny Margaret Ellen Thomas - 1868-1952 Suffragette, Headmistress, Labour Councillor, Trade Unionist.
• 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

V

• 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

W

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  Vera Wentworth in 1909

  Marion Wallace Dunlop (1864–1942) – suffragette went on hunger strike after being arrested for militancy

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  Barbara Wylie

  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"

Y

• Lucy Yates (1863–1935) – suffragist, writer

Z

• Alice Zimmern (1855–1939) – teacher, writer

See also

• List of suffragists and suffragettes
• Timeline of women's suffrage

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