10 Facts About Leonora Tyson

Leonora Helen Tyson was an English suffragette and member of the Women's Social and Political Union.

Leonora Tyson became very active in the organisation serving as Honorary Secretary of the Streatham branch in 1909 and Secretary of the Lambeth branch in 1910, resuming her role in Streatham in 1911.

Leonora Tyson spoke at many meetings in Streatham, Lambeth, and further afield.

In October 1911 Leonora Tyson who was fluent in German represented the WSPU at the Women's Congress in Hamburg, Germany.

In 1911, the Anti-Suffrage Alphabet, authored by Laurence Housman and edited by Leonora Tyson, was published in London.

Leonora Tyson was force-fed by prison authorities after three days of refusing food and water.

Leonora Tyson's signature is among those embroidered on The Suffragette Handkerchief in Holloway in March 1912.

Leonora Tyson was awarded the WPSU Hunger Strike Medal The citation engraved on the bar is 'For Valour' and the inscription on the box would say.

Leonora Tyson's medal is in the Museum of London.

Leonora Tyson died on 4 February 1959, aged 75, at her niece's home in East Sheen.