1. Charlotte Marsh was a paid organiser of the Women's Social and Political Union and is one of the first women to be force fed during one of several terms of imprisonment for militant protest.
19 Facts About Charlotte Marsh
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Charlotte Marsh was chauffeur and mechanic to David Lloyd George during the First World War.
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Charlotte Marsh had two older half sisters Margaret Hannah Phillis Marsh and Phillis Clara Sylvia Marsh from her father's first marriage to Juliana Phillis Glover and four full sisters Nellie Wellesley Marsh ; Dorothy Hale Marsh ; Margaret Marsh and Lois Marsh.
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Charlotte Marsh was educated locally at St Margaret's School and then at Roseneath in Wrexham before completing her education in Bordeaux.
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In 1907 Charlotte Marsh joined the Women's Social and Political Union, but did not become active.
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Charlotte Marsh helped Mary Philips in pavement chalking in Lambeth, whom Philips noted 'gamely stood the jeering and rough handling' the women got in the process.
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Charlotte Marsh was seen on parade which was considered less likely to attract violence, with Dora Spong with Dorothy Hartopp Radcliffe, Hilda Dallas handing out Votes for Women, and publicising with a placard the upcoming Women's Parliament on 30 June 1908.
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Charlotte Marsh was sent to trial and then on to Winson Green Prison.
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Charlotte Marsh was reported to have been fed by tube 139 times during this imprisonment and released two days later that was the norm for when her father's fatal illness.
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Charlotte Marsh was invited as a leading suffragette to Eagle House in Batheaston in April 1911.
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Mary's mother, Emily Blathwayt, recorded that Charlotte Marsh was not eating meat but seemed to have recovered from her imprisonment.
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Charlotte Marsh refused to complete the 1911 census, and was recorded as spending the census night at St James Hall, Landport returning home to 4 Pelham Road, Portsmouth the next day and "absolutely refuses to full up paper".
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Charlotte Marsh had been given a Hunger Strike Medal 'for Valour' by WSPU.
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Lloyd George drove his car but Charlotte Marsh served as its mechanic.
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Charlotte Marsh founded the breakaway Independent Women's Social and Political Union to continue the campaign, publishing Independent Suffragette.
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Charlotte Marsh returned to London where she returned to her expertise in public health working for London County Council.
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Charlotte Marsh was involved with Edith How-Martyn in setting up the collection of the Suffragette Fellowship documenting the movement.
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Charlotte Marsh was a member of the Six Point Group's executive council with Theresa Garnett.
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Charlotte Marsh died on 21 April 1961, aged 74, at 31 Copse Hill, London.