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 Mary Crudelius (1839–1877) – early supporter of women's suffrage and campaigner for women's education Helen Cruickshank (1886–1975) – was a Scottish poet and suffragette Emily Davies (1830–1921) – co-founder of Kensington Society and Britain's first women's college, Girton College, Cambridge University 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 Girl Guides 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 Flora Drummond (1878–1949) – organiser for WSPU, imprisoned nine times for her activism in Women's Suffrage movement, inspiring orator 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 Louise Eates (1877–1944) - was a British suffragette, chair of Kensington Women's Social and Political Union and a women's education activist. Maude Edwards (fl. 1914) – suffragette 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 Caprina Fahey (1883–1959) – received the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) Hunger Strike Medal "for Valour" in 1914 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 Edith Margaret Garrud (1872–1971) – first trainer of 'the Bodyguard', formed in response