1. Edith Hudson was born on 1872 and was a British nurse and suffragette.
17 Facts About Edith Hudson
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Edith Hudson was an active member of the Edinburgh branch of the Women's Social and Political Union and was arrested several times for her part in their protests in Scotland and London.
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Edith Hudson engaged in hunger strikes while in prison and was forcibly fed.
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Edith Hudson was released after the last of these strikes under the so-called Cat and Mouse Act.
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Edith Hudson gave up her profession to dedicate herself to the women's suffrage movement.
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Edith Hudson was an active member of the Edinburgh branch of the Women's Social and Political Union and engaged in protests in Scotland and London.
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Edith Hudson hosted meetings of the Edinburgh WSPU at her home in Melville Place.
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Edith Hudson was arrested for the first time in Edinburgh in December 1909 at a demonstration where Liberal MP Sir Edward Grey was delivering a speech.
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Edith Hudson addressed a large crowd before making her way to the theatre and becoming engaged in scuffles with police who were blocking the way.
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Edith Hudson opted to go to prison and was removed to Calton Jail with a fellow suffragette Elsie Roe-Brown.
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Edith Hudson was involved in an incident at Louth Town Hall at Louth in Lincolnshire in 1910, when during a speech being given by the then Chancellor of the Exchequer and future Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, she and Bertha Brewster conducted a protest and were arrested.
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On 21 November 1911, Hudson was among the 223 protesters arrested at a WSPU demonstration at the House of Commons, to which she had travelled with other women from the Edinburgh branch, including Jessie C Methven, Alice Shipley, Elizabeth and Agnes Thomson and Mrs N Grieve.
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Edith Hudson had previously been arrested in London in November 1910.
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In March 1912, Edith Hudson took part in a militant protest which involved concerted window-smashing in London over three days.
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In May 1913 Edith Hudson was charged with attempting to set fire to Kelso Racecourse stand, along with Arabella Scott and Elizabeth and Agnes Thomson, and, at Jedburgh Sheriff Court, was sentenced to nine months imprisonment in Calton Jail.
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Edith Hudson was interviewed there by a journalist who described her as "a woman of fine physique" who would soon be to fit enough to return to Calton for "further martyrdom".
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Edith Hudson was remembered by a fellow suffragette as "about the most gentle person I knew".