Dr Octavia Lewin
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Single
Born: 1869
Died: 1955
Place of birth: Hertfordshire, England
Education: Frances Holland School; Queens College, Cambridge; Harley Street; Girton College; London School of Medicine; Royal Free Hospital
Occupation: Physician
Main Suffrage Society: WFL
Other Societies: WSPU
Arrest Record: Yes
Recorded Entries: 1
Other sources: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4769024
https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw161870/Octavia-Margaret-Sophia-Lewin?LinkID=mp101790&role=sit&rNo=0
Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866?1928 (1999)
Database linked sources: https://www.suffrageresources.org.uk/resource/3229/the-womens-freedom-league
Additional Information: Octavia joined the WSPU in 1906 but left, becoming a founder member of the breakaway Women's Freedom League (WFL) in 1907. She was a keen supporter of tax resistance, refusing to pay whatever taxes she was held responsible for. In 1911, she took part, at her home at number 25 Wimpole Street, London, in the illegal suffrage boycott of the government census survey by refusing to give the required information. She wrote across her form instead: 'No Vote, No Census. I absolutely refuse to give any information.'
Other Suffrage Activities: During the First World War, Octavia worked as a hearing (aural) surgeon to the Women's Hospital Corps.