Mrs Elsa Gye
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Single
Born: 1881
Died: 1943
Place of birth: Bloomsbury, Middlesex, England
Education: Croydon High School, London; Guildhall School of Music (violin and singing)
Main Suffrage Society: WSPU
Society Role: Organiser
Arrest Record: Yes
Recorded Entries: 2
Other sources: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4769024
Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866?1928 (1999)
Family information: Married in 1911. Had three sons.
Additional Information: Elsa joined the WSPU in 1907, and in February 1908 took part in a 'raid' on the House of Commons. She then travelled up and down the country, from WSPU campaigning at by-elections in Dundee, Scotland to organising in Haverfordwest, Wales. In February 1909, she was arrested again for another 'raid' on the House of Commons. In September that year, she was in Birmingham, organising a protest at Bingley Hall to disrupt the Prime Minister's meeting. She did this by sitting on the roof of a house next door and throwing roof slates down. Surprisingly, she was not arrested. In 1910 she worked as an organiser in Derby, before returning to London to organise in Camberwell. She was introduced to her husband Will Bullock, whose sister was a WSPU member, thanks to suffragette Minnie Baldock. When they married in 1911, her husband unusually adpoted his wife's surname and became Dr Gye.