Grace Marcon known as Frieda Graham was a British Suffragette who damaged five paintings in the National Gallery including Giovanni Bellini's The Agony in The Garden and Gentile Bellini's Portrait of a Mathematician.
11 Facts About Grace Marcon
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Grace Marcon's mother was named Sarah and her father was Canon Walter Marcon and he was the rector of the parish of Edgefield in Norfolk from 1876.
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Grace Marcon became a suffragette and she was released from court with an obligation to keep the peace after she was arrested in 1913.
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Grace Marcon's arrest arose from a disagreement between the police and protesting suffragettes led by Sylvia Pankhurst.
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Grace Marcon was photographed secretly whilst in Holloway prison together with other arrested suffragettes.
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Grace Marcon said that she had done the damage in protest because the king had refused to see a deputation of women.
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Grace Marcon was imprisoned and released again when she was said to have cut off her hair whilst recovering from this hunger strike.
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Grace Marcon was given a Hunger Strike Medal to commemorate her valour.
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Scholey was a press photographer and in 1923 Grace Marcon worked away across Canada to marry him in Quebec.
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Grace Marcon was still in touch with Emmeline Pankhurst and all women did not get the vote until 1928.
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Grace Marcon died in Oxford in 1965 and was buried in Edgefield.