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211 Appendix Brief Biographical Index of Persons Emily Davison Refers to in Her Writing Lord Acton (1834–­ 1902) was a Roman Catholic historian, a founder of the English Historical Review, appointed Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge. He was a liberal thinker whose work, as Davison suggests, is comparative, broadly-­ conceived, and attentive to the development of liberty in European history. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836–­ 1917) was the first woman to be certified as a physician and surgeon in the UK. She joined the British Medical Society in 1873 and helped establish the New Hospital for Women and the London School of Medicine for Women. Her sister was Millicent Garrett Fawcett. Both women were committed to women’s suffrage. Louisa Garrett Anderson (1873–­ 1943) was Elizabeth Garrett Anderson’s daughter . Like her mother, she was a physician and a social reformer. She joined the WSPU in 1907, working through that organization and others for woman suffrage. During the First World War she pioneered the Women’s Hospital Corps. Susan B. Anthony (1820–­ 1906), American abolitionist and woman suffrage campaigner , co-­ authored the four volume History of Woman Suffrage with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Matilda Joslyn Gage; from 1868 to 1870 she edited a weekly suffrage paper, The Revolution, whose motto was strikingly similar to the WSPU goal for woman suffrage: “The true republic—­ men, their rights and nothing more, women, their rights and nothing less.” Henry Herbert Asquith (1852–­ 1928), a Liberal, served as prime minister from 1908 to 1916; his opposition to woman suffrage during this period was a prime obstacle to enfranchising women. Hertha Ayrton (1854–­ 1923), an English mathematician and inventor who pioneered the way for women in mathematics and science. She studied at Girton College, Cambridge, where she passed the Mathematical Tripos in 212 Biographical Appendix 1880, receiving a certificate rather than a degree, because Cambridge, like Oxford, did not then award degrees to women. Her daughter Barbara Ayrton (1886–­ 1950) became a suffragette. William Ball On April 19, 1912, Votes for Women reported that Ball, a male suffragist, was “reduced to insanity after over five weeks’ forcible feeding in Pentonville Gaol. . . .” Sir Frederick Banbury, 1st Baron Banbury of Southam (1850–­ 1936), financier in the City of London, and chairman of the Great Northern Railway. He served as Conservative MP for the City of London 1906–­ 24. Rachel Barrett (1875–­ 1953), an organizer and active participant in the WSPU. After the government attack on the group’s headquarters at Clement’s Inn in 1912, when Christabel Pankhurst fled to Paris, she continued helping to organize WSPU activities, and became editor of the new newspaper The Suffragette. Teresa Billington-­Greig (1877–­ 1964) joined the WSPU in 1903–­ 4, but withdrew after Emmeline Pankhurst suspended the WSPU constitution in 1907. She went on to found the Women’s Freedom League. Robert Blake (1599–­ 1657)? Blake was credited with the idea of establishing English naval superiority. A stone tablet to his memory was placed in Westminster Abbey, and a stained glass window in St. Margaret’s church, but no statue. There is a statue of Blake in Somerset. Boadicea (c. 60 AD) was the queen of the British Iceni who led her tribe in revolt against the Romans; her iconography was especially popular in the nineteenth century when it was linked to Queen Victoria. Barbara Bodichon (1827–­ 91) worked for women’s equality in a variety of ways. She was one of the Ladies of Langham Place group who met regularly during the 1850s to discuss women’s rights. In 1858 she founded the English Women’s Journal to discuss employment and equality issues relevant to women. In 1869, with Emily Davies she founded what would become Girton College at Cambridge University. She was also an accomplished artist who exhibited at the Royal Academy, and a close friend of George Eliot. James Boswell (1740–­ 95) was a Scottish lawyer, diarist, author, and close companion of Samuel Johnson, now chiefly known for his Life of Samuel Johnson (1791). Edmund Burke (1729–­ 97) was an Anglo-­ Irish philosopher and political thinker whose works articulated a vision of humanity and society that underlay both modern conservative political philosophy and classical liberal philosophy. Lord Byron (1788–­ 1824), the Romantic poet. Sir Winston Churchill (1874–­ 1965) served as Home Secretary from 1910 to 1911 in the Asquith government; as Home Secretary he was an active participant in dealing with suffragette protests and imprisonment. He moved to [18.189.145.20] Project MUSE (2024...

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