Edith How-Martyn

Dates: 1875-1954

Lived at: 38 Hogarth Hill

Suffrage organisation(s):

• WSPU
• founding member WFL
• founding member Women’s Tax Resistance League

Key roles:

• Executive WSPU until 1907
• Founding member of the National Executive Committee and Hon Sec WFL
• Editor of The Vote (WFL journal)

1911 Census return

• Resisted and wrote rebellious return. Her home was an 'Open House' for evaders

Militant Activities:

• Imprisoned Holloway for one month 1906 for "scuffling with police" while attempting to make a speech in the lobby of the House of Commons.
• Involved in non-violent illegal acts with the WFL, including an attempt to disrupt the King's procession to the February 1909 opening of Parliament.

Other achievements:

• First female member of Middlesex County Council
• First female chair of Middlesex CC
• Birth control campaigner

Memorialised: on Fawcett statue in Parliament Square

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