11 Facts About Elsa Gye

Elsa Gye was a music student at Guildhall who became a suffragette and involved in disruptive events in London and Scotland and was imprisoned for the cause of women's suffrage.

Elsa Gye married the brother of fellow suffragette Daisy Bullock, William Ewart Gye in 1911 whilst he was a medical student at Edinburgh, and had her first child in 1912.

Later he went on to work with the Imperial Cancer Research Fund and Gye helped the creation of the Suffragette Record Room in London.

Elsa Gye was educated at Croydon High School and the Guildhall School of Music.

Elsa Gye had met Daisy Bullock in 1907 and was with Gladice Keevil, Nellie Martel, Emmeline Pankhurst, Aeta Lamb when they disrupted Chancellor H Asquith speaking at a meeting in Nottingham.

In 1908, Elsa Gye worked with Minnie Baldock to open a local branch of Women's Social and Political Union in Nottingham.

Elsa Gye was taken for a celebration breakfast by WSPU members including former prisoners, at Inns of Court Hotel, Holburn when released from prison in April 1909.

Elsa Gye was supportive to Constance Lytton during her first activism in 1909, recommending she should breach the peace to get herself arrested and make speeches to attract attention.

Elsa Gye was separated from Lytton in the crowd and the crush affected Lytton's weak heart.

Elsa Gye was one of the organisers with Gladys Keevil of noisy protests at Budget meetings at Bingley Hall, Birmingham on 17 September 1909 when firemen were on standby, and other women used slates thrown from a nearby roof to drown out Asquith's speech.

Elsa Gye helped the creation of the Suffragette Record Room in London.