1. Frances Graves aka Frances Gordon was born on around 1874 and was a British suffragette who became prominent in the militant wing of the Scottish women's suffrage movement prior to the First World War and was imprisoned and force-fed for her actions.
Frances Graves adopted the alias Frances Gordon while campaigning for women's suffrage.
The caretaker fired two shots with his revolver to alert the local constable on the beat, the noise of which caused the other suffragettes accompanying Frances Gordon to flee the house.
Frances Gordon was described as a small woman of about forty years of age with a pronounced English accent.
At the High Court of Glasgow, Frances Gordon was charged with attempting to set fire to Springhall House.
Frances Gordon pleaded not guilty and her counsel attempted to have the case thrown out on a technicality - that housebreaking with intent to set a fire was not a crime in Scotland - but the attempt was unsuccessful and the guilty verdict was returned by the jury.
Frances Gordon was fed with the nasal tube and had injections into her bowel three times a day.
Frances Gordon's temperature fell to 96.4 Fahrenheit and her pulse could sometimes barely be felt at all.
When Frances Gordon's 'treatment' was revealed, Dr Watson was stunned by the furore it provoked in others.
On 3 July 1914, Frances Gordon was released from prison under the Cat and Mouse Act and taken to Glasgow.
Frances Gordon's appearance was appalling, like a famine victim: the skin brown, her face bones standing out, her eyes half shut, her voice a whisper, her hands quite cold, her pulse a thread, her wrist joints slightly swollen, stiff, and painful, the breath most offensive, and the contents of the bowel beyond control.
Frances Gordon's condition required the administration of enemata, and I have no reason to doubt that in the circumstances the doctor treated her case properly and humanely.
Frances Gordon had been given a Hunger Strike Medal 'for Valour' by WSPU.
In 2014 a public street in Perth, Frances Gordon Road, was dedicated to her.