1. Frances Mary "Fanny" Parker was a New Zealand-born suffragette who became prominent in the militant wing of the Scottish women's suffrage movement and was repeatedly imprisoned for her actions.
13 Facts About Frances Parker
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Frances Parker's family lived at the Waihao Downs Homestead from 1870 to 1895, when they moved to Little Roderick.
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Frances Parker's mother died in London in 1925, and believed that her brother was still alive and a prisoner in Germany.
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Frances Parker left New Zealand in 1896 to study at Newnham College, Cambridge.
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Frances Parker received a degree in 1899, and subsequently spent several years working as a teacher in New Zealand.
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On her return to Britain, Frances Parker began campaigning for women's suffrage, initially as a speaker with the Scottish Universities Women's Suffrage Union, and later with Emmeline Pankhurst's Women's Social and Political Union, for which she became organiser in the West of Scotland in 1912.
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Frances Parker took part in increasingly militant actions, for which she was imprisoned several times.
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Frances Parker served six weeks for obstruction in 1908 following a demonstration.
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Frances Parker joined other suffragettes in defiantly embroidering her signature on a piece of cloth, under the eyes of the wardresses, now known as The Suffragette Handkerchief.
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Frances Parker was seriously ill when finally released to a nursing home, but was still able to escape.
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Frances Parker had been given a Hunger Strike Medal "for Valour" by WSPU.
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Frances Parker left her Hunger Strike medal to her friend and fellow activist, Ethel Moorhead.
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The Suffragette Handkerchief with Frances Parker's embroidered signature and 67 suffragette names or initials can be seen at Priest House, West Hoathly, Sussex.