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The list Hunger Strike Medal recipients includes Alice Paul, Flora Drummond, Emmeline Pankhurst, Laura Ainsworth and Mary Richardson. The list consists of 132 members.

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Hunger Strike Medal
Medal for suffragette prisoners who had gone on hunger strike
  • 1.

    Alice Paul
    American suffragist, feminist, and activist (1885–1977)
    Alice Paul
    Overview: Alice Stokes Paul (January 11, 1885 – July 9, 1977) was an American Quaker, suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, and one of the main leaders and strategists of the campaign for the Nineteenth ...
    Date of birth: 11 January 1885
    Date of death: 9 July 1977
    Age: 92 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Female
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    Quaker feminists 75T
    Moorestown Friends School alumni 12T
    Hunger strikers 55T
  • 2.

    Flora Drummond
    Suffragette
    Flora Drummond
    Overview: Flora McKinnon Drummond (née Gibson, later Simpson), (born 4 August 1878 in Manchester– died 7 January 1949 in Carradale), was a British suffragette. Nicknamed The General for her habit of leading Women's ...
    Date of birth: 4 August 1878
    Date of death: 17 January 1949
    Age: 70 (age at death)
    Nationality: Scottish
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Female
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    Scottish suffragettes 44T
    Women's Social and Political Union 166T
    Women's suffrage in Scotland 126T
  • 3.

    Emmeline Pankhurst
    English suffragist
    Emmeline Pankhurst
    Overview: Emmeline Pankhurst (born Emmeline Goulden; 14 July 1858 – 14 June 1928) was a British political activist. She is best remembered for organizing the UK suffragette movement and helping women win the su ...
    Date of birth: 14 July 1858
    Date of death: 14 June 1928
    Age: 69 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Female
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    20th-century British women politicians 386T
    Independent Labour Party National Administrative Committee members 113T
    English suffragettes 77T
  • 4.

    Laura Ainsworth
    British teacher and suffragette
    Laura Ainsworth
    Overview: Laura Ainsworth (1885 – 1958) was a British teacher and suffragette. She was employed by the Women's Social and Political Union and was one of the first suffragettes to be force-fed. She left the WSPU ...
    Date of birth: 1885
    Date of death: 1958
    Age: 72 (age at death)
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    Schoolteachers from Suffolk 13T
    Eagle House suffragettes 43T
    Women's Social and Political Union 166T
  • 5.

    Mary Richardson
    British, Activist
    Mary Richardson
    Overview: Mary Raleigh Richardson (1882/3 – 7 November 1961) was a Canadian suffragette active in the women's suffrage movement in the United Kingdom, an arsonist, a socialist parliamentary candidate and later head ...
    Date of birth: 1889
    Date of death: 7 November 1961
    Age: 72 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Female
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    Women fascists 1T
    British Union of Fascists politicians 62T
    British people convicted of arson 6T
  • 6.

    Emily Davison
    English suffragette (1872–1913)
    Emily Davison
    Overview: Emily Wilding Davison (11 October 1872 – 8 June 1913) was an English suffragette who fought for votes for women in Britain in the early twentieth century. A member of the Women's Social and Political Union ...
    Date of birth: 11 October 1872
    Date of death: 8 June 1913
    Age: 40 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Educator
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    Holloway brooch recipients 20T
    Schoolteachers from London 179T
    English suffragettes 77T
  • 7.

    Norah Elam
    Irish, Activist
    Norah Elam
    Overview: Norah Elam, also known as Norah Dacre Fox (née Norah Doherty, 1878–1961), was a militant suffragette, anti-vivisectionist, feminist and fascist in the United Kingdom. Born in Dublin to John and Charlotte ...
    Date of birth: 5 March 1878
    Date of death: 2 March 1961
    Age: 82 (age at death)
    Nationality: Irish
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Female
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    English anti-vivisectionists 81T
    Women fascists 21T
    English Nazis 21T
  • 8.

    Annie Kenney
    British suffragette (1879–1953)
    Annie Kenney
    Overview: Ann "Annie" Kenney (13 September 1879 – 9 July 1953) was an English working-class suffragette who became a leading figure in the Women's Social and Political Union. She co-founded its first branch in London ...
    Date of birth: 13 September 1879
    Date of death: 9 July 1953
    Age: 73 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
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    Eagle House suffragettes 43T
    Women's Social and Political Union 166T
    Socialist feminists 777T
  • 9.

    Sylvia Pankhurst
    English activist, writer and artist (1882–1960)
    Sylvia Pankhurst
    Overview: Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst (5 May 1882 – 27 September 1960) was an English campaigner for the suffrage and suffragette movement, a socialist and later a prominent left communist and activist in the cause ...
    Date of birth: 5 May 1882
    Date of death: 27 September 1960
    Age: 78 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Female
    Partner: Silvio Corio (Long-Term)
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    People from Old Trafford 7T
    Women's Social and Political Union 166T
    Anti-Stalinist left 50T
  • 10.

    Lucy Burns
    Suffragette
    Lucy Burns
    Overview: Lucy Burns (July 28, 1879 – December 22, 1966) was an American suffragist and women's rights advocate. She was a passionate activist in the United States and in the United Kingdom. Burns was a close friend ...
    Date of birth: 20 April 1879
    Date of death: 15 September 1966
    Age: 87 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Female
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    Women's Social and Political Union 166T
    Women's suffrage in Scotland 126T
    National Woman's Party 11T
  • 11.

    Clara Lambert
    UK suffragette
    Clara Lambert
    Overview: Clara Mary Lambert aliased as Catherine Wilson; May Stewart or Mary Stewart (1874–1969) was a British frequently-arrested suffragette. She took a hatchet to porcelain in the British Museum, smuggled herself ...
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  • 12.

    Margaret Skirving Gibb
    Scottish suffragette
    Margaret Skirving Gibb
    Overview: Margaret Skirving Gibb (1877–1954) was a Scottish suffragette and chess player. She was involved in several suffragette activities including slashing a portrait of one of the founders of the Scottish ...
    Date of birth: 1877
    Date of death: 1954
    Age: 76 (age at death)
    Nationality: Scottish
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Female
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  • 13.
    Overview: Selina Martin (21 November 1882 – 1972) was involved in the suffragette movement in the early 20th century. She was arrested several times.
    Nationality: British
    Gender: Female
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    Holloway brooch recipients 20T
    Women's Social and Political Union 166T
    English suffragists 227T
  • 14.

    Kitty Marion
    Actress and political activist, Militant Suffragette (1871–1944)
    Kitty Marion
    Overview: Kitty Marion (12 March 1871 – 9 October 1944) was born Katherina Maria Schäfer in Germany. She immigrated to London in 1886 when she was fifteen, and she grew to minor prominence when she sang in music ...
    Date of birth: 12 March 1871
    Date of death: 9 October 1944
    Age: 73 (age at death)
    Nationality: German
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Female
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    German emigrants to England 312T
    German emigrants to the United Kingdom 350T
    British emigrants to the United States 1,058T
  • 15.

    Mary Leigh
    British activist
    Mary Leigh
    Overview: Mary Leigh (née Brown; 1885–1978) was an English political activist and suffragette.
    Date of birth: 1885
    Date of death: 1978
    Age: 92 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Female
     0    0
    Women's Social and Political Union 166T
    20th-century English criminals 122T
    Prisoners and detainees of England and Wales 210T
  • 16.

    Olive Wharry
    English suffragette
    Olive Wharry
    Overview: Olive Wharry (29 September 1886 – 2 October 1947) was an English artist, arsonist and suffragette, who in 1913 was imprisoned with Lilian Lenton for burning down the tea pavilion at Kew Gardens.
    Date of birth: 1886
    Date of death: 1947
    Age: 60 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Female
     0    0
    English suffragettes 77T
    Women's Social and Political Union 166T
    Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom 78T
  • 17.

    Margaret Mackworth, 2nd Viscountess Rhondda
    Essayist, autobiographer, suffragette (1883–1958)
    Margaret Mackworth, 2nd Viscountess Rhondda
    Overview: Margaret Haig Mackworth, 2nd Viscountess Rhondda (12 June 1883 – 20 July 1958) was a Welsh peer, businesswoman, and active suffragette. She was significant in the history of women's suffrage in the United ...
    Date of birth: 12 June 1883
    Date of death: 20 July 1958
    Age: 75 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
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    People from Newport, Wales 324T
    Welsh suffragists 11T
    Shipwreck survivors 121T
  • 18.

    Hannah Mitchell
    Socialist and suffragette
    Hannah Mitchell
    Overview: Hannah Mitchell (11 February 1872 – 22 October 1956) was an English suffragette and socialist. Born into a poor farming family in Derbyshire, Mitchell left home at a young age to work as a seamstress ...
    Date of birth: 11 February 1872
    Date of death: 22 October 1956
    Age: 84 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Gender: Female
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    Women's Social and Political Union 166T
    Socialist feminists 777T
    English suffragists 227T
  • 19.

    Mary Sophia Allen
    Welsh-born British woman who worked for women's rights
    Mary Sophia Allen
    Overview: Mary Sophia Allen OBE (12 March 1878 – 16 December 1964) was a British woman who worked for women's rights. She is chiefly noted as one of the early leaders of the Women's Police Volunteers. Allen re ...
    Date of birth: 12 March 1878
    Date of death: 16 December 1964
    Age: 86 (age at death)
    Nationality: Welsh
    Occupation: Politician
     0    0
    Women's Social and Political Union 166T
    Women's suffrage in Scotland 126T
    British Union of Fascists politicians 60T
  • 20.

    Constance Lytton
    Suffragette
    Constance Lytton
    Overview: Lady Constance Georgina Bulwer-Lytton (12 February 1869 – 2 May 1923), usually known as Constance Lytton, was an influential British suffragette activist, writer, speaker and campaigner for prison reform ...
    Date of birth: 12 January 1869
    Date of death: 2 May 1923
    Age: 54 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Female
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    Burials at the Lytton Mausoleum 2T
    Lytton family 12T
    Eagle House suffragettes 43T
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