Una Harriet Ella Stratford Duval was a British suffragette and marriage reformer.
10 Facts About Una Duval
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Una Duval bought the painting of Christabel Pankhurst by the suffragist Ethel Wright which was later donated to the National Portrait Gallery.
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Una Duval was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College, and later in Hanover and Paris where she studied singing.
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Una Duval was niece of Arthur Peel, 1st Viscount Peel, Speaker of the House of Commons Her parents' household had five servants, and they had a holiday home near Aberdeen.
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Una Duval Dugdale was introduced to the suffrage movement by Frank Rutter.
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On 24 February 1909 Una Duval Dugdale was arrested in Parliament Square during a suffragette "raid" on the House of Commons.
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Una Duval came from a middle class family, all of whom supported votes for women.
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In 1912, the year Una Dugdale married Victor Duval, publishing her pamphlet "Love, Honour and not Obey" she, too, was painted by Ethel Wright.
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Wright painted a full length portrait of Una Duval Dugdale dressed in bright jade with a background of fierce fighting cocks, entitled "The Music Room".
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On 29 January 1955, Una Duval recorded an interview with John Ellison from the BBC Home Service's In Town Tonight describing how she attempted to storm parliament, was beaten in the street by policemen, and spent time in prison, during the campaign for women's votes.