1. Georgina "Ina" Agnes Brackenbury was a British painter who was known as a militant suffragette.
14 Facts About Georgina Brackenbury
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Georgina Brackenbury followed Emmeline Pankhurst's lead as she became more militant.
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Brackenbury was born at Royal Military Academy in Woolwich where her father, Major General Charles Booth Brackenbury who had been a Times correspondent before he was wounded was Director of the artillery college.
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Georgina Brackenbury was brought up by Flora Shaw, a governess housekeeper - as Brackenbury's mother, Hilda Eliza, disliked housework.
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In time her sister Maria Georgina Brackenbury would follow her lead.
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Georgina Brackenbury exhibited at London galleries including the Royal Academy.
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Georgina Brackenbury's parents had set land aside to plant an individual tree for each WSPU member sentenced to prison.
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Georgina Brackenbury allegedly informed Christabel Pankhurst that at a function she had heard senior police state they had been instructed by government not to let suffragettes be treated as 'political' prisoners.
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Georgina Brackenbury's mother made the point that two of her sons had been killed in India on active service whilst she had little political rights to vote.
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Georgina Brackenbury's mother served eight days on remand and fourteen days in jail despite being 80 years old.
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Georgina Brackenbury's mother was asked to talk at the London Pavilion when she was released in April 1912.
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When Emmeline Pankhurst died on 14 June 1928, Georgina Brackenbury was one of her pallbearers, alongside other former suffragettes her sister, Marion Wallace Dunlop, Harriet Kerr, Mildred Mansel, Kitty Marshall, Marie Naylor, Ada Wright and Barbara Wylie.
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Georgina Brackenbury died in St Mary Abbots in 1949, and her 2 Camden Hill Square, Holland Park home was left to a group providing clubs and hostel accommodation for women over thirty.
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An enamel plaque of the Georgina Brackenbury women including an image of a woman in a natural meadow scene, freed from chains by Ernestine Mills is in the Museum of London.