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Davison, Miss Emily Wilding, B.A., Honours (London), Oxford Final Honour School in English Language and Literature (Class I.), etc. Society: W.S.P.U.; born at Blackheath; daughter of Charles Edward and Margaret Davison ; joined W.S.P.U., November, 1906. Imprisonments:—
1. March 30th, 1909, [Emily Wilding Davison [aged 36]] one month for going on deputation;
2. July 30th, 1909, [Emily Wilding Davison [aged 36]] two months for obstruction at Limehouse, released after five and a-half days' hunger strike;
3. September 4th, 1909, [Emily Wilding Davison [aged 36]] stone-throwing at White City, Manchester, two months, but released after two and a-half days' hunger strike;
4. October 20th, 1909, [Emily Wilding Davison [aged 37]] stone-throwing at Radcliffe, one month's hard labour on each count, hunger struck, forcibly fed, hosepipe incident in Strangeways prison and released at end of eight days;
5. November 19th, 1910, [Emily Wilding Davison [aged 38]] broke a window inside the House of Commons; one month, hunger struck, forcibly fed, and released after eight days.
6. December 14th, 1911, [Emily Wilding Davison [aged 39]] arrested for setting fire to pillar-boxes in City of Westminster; Holloway, remand one week, and
7. January 10th, 1912 [Emily Wilding Davison [aged 39]] for above, sentenced at Old Bailey to six months' imprisonment; hunger struck twice with others, and twice forcibly fed; released 10 days before sentence finished on account of injuries sustained in protest made against forcible feeding;
8. November 30th, 1912, [Emily Wilding Davison [aged 40]] sentenced to 10 days' imprisonment for assaulting a Baptist Minister by mistake for Mr. Lloyd-George at Aberdeen Station; hunger struck and released at end of 4 days' fast;
[Emily Wilding Davison [aged 36]] was arrested on great deputation together with Mrs. Pankhurst, June 29th, 1909; January 19th, 1910, won case against visiting magistrates of Strangeways Prison, Manchester; has three times hidden in House of Commons—April, 1910, in hot-air shaft, April, 1911 in crypt and also in June, 1911; marches in which took part—March, 1907, July, 1910, June, 1911 and July, 1911.
Publications: Articles in "Votes for Women" and other papers. Recreations: Swimming, cycling and studying. Address: Longhorsley, S.O. Northumberland.