Miss Florence Elizabeth Mary MacAulay
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Single
Born: 1862
Died: 1945
Place of birth: Reading, Berkshire, England
Education: Somerville College, Oxford
Occupation: Teacher
Main Suffrage Society: WSPU
Society Role: Organiser
Arrest Record: Yes
Recorded Entries: 1
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: Father a bookseller.
Additional Information: Florence had joined the WSPU by 1907, at which time she gave a talk to the WSPU Canning Town branch, London. She became an organiser and travelled frequently. In 1909, she penned a marching song, 'The Women's Marseillaise', 'Arise Ye daughters of a land/That vaunts its liberty!', used by the WSPU. Between 1908 and 1913, she was involved in organising and activites with WSPU branches in Bristol, the Midlands, Edinburgh, Canterbury and Thanet. She was arrested in 1913 at a meeting in Essex Hall, London, where Annie Kenney was also arrested for incitement to riot.