1. Florence Eliza Haig was a Scottish artist and suffragette who was decorated for imprisonments and hunger strikes.
19 Facts About Florence Haig
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Florence Haig's father was a Berwickshire barrister and she had two sisters, Cecilia and Evelyn.
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Florence Haig was an artist and her pastel of the physicist John Tyndall was photographed and a copy is in the National Portrait gallery.
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Florence Haig made another in 1907 but in February she was attracted to the rival Women's Social and Political Union.
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Florence Haig was met by a young Grace Roe when suffragettes were chalking the pavement in Kensington High Street.
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Florence Haig invited Roe to the demonstration at Hyde Park and she went and was inspired by Christabel Pankhurst.
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Florence Haig became a founder member of East London Federation of Suffragettes and had her artist studio in Limehouse, and co-ordinated all classes of women to campaign together.
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Florence Haig was in the 1908 delegation with Emmeline Pankhurst, including Jessie Stephenson, Maud Joachim and Mary Philips, when Mrs Pankhurst was attempting unsuccessfully to see the Prime Minister.
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Florence Haig said on her release that it was'wonderful how each woman who acts influences their own circle.
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Florence Haig's imprisonment was celebrated and later hunger strike recognised by the leaders of the movement.
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Florence Haig was entitled to the tradition of planting a commemorative tree at the "Suffragette's Rest".
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Florence Haig's parents had set land aside to plant an individual tree for each WSPU member sentenced to prison for the cause.
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Florence Haig immediately went on hunger strike and was released after four days.
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Florence Haig was given a Hunger Strike Medal 'for Valour' by WSPU.
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Florence Haig's medal is in the Museum of London.
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Florence Haig left the East London Federation at the start of World War I and joined Emmeline Pankhurst, Annie Kenney and Mabel Tuke in their halt of militancy and turning to support the war effort.
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Florence Haig was one of the movement chosen as coffin carriers at Emmeline Pankhurst's funeral in June 1928.
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Florence Haig exhibited regularly and was a member of the New Society of Artists.
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Florence Haig joined the Society of Women Artists in 1934.