Mr Henry Wood Nevinson

Other sources: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4769024
https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw163573/Henry-Woodd-Nevinson?LinkID=mp03273&search=sas&sText=henry+wood+nevinson&role=sit&rNo=3
Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866?1928 (1999)

Database linked sources: https://www.suffrageresources.org.uk/resource/3228/men-in-the-suffrage-movement

Additional Information: Henry was a supporter of the WSPU and gave the first of numerous speeches on the arguments for women's suffrage at a WSPU breakfast meeting in 1907. He also gave money and carried banners on processions. Disgusted by the rough treatment of WSPU 'hecklers' at a meeting with Lloyd George, he got embroiled in the resulting scuffles and was himself thrown out. He was subsequently forced to resign from his job at the Daily News newspaper and noted in his autobiography that he hadn't been able to get 'regular work on any daily newspaper since'. Henry joined the committee of the Men's League for Women's Suffrage (MLWS) to begin with but, finding them a little too tame, helped found the more radical Men's Political Union for Women's Enfranchisement (MPU). The MPU was, in effect, a 'men's wing' of the WSPU. In 1911, Henry took part in the illegal suffrage boycott of the goverment's census survey, 'evading' officials and so not appearing on the population statistics gathered that year. By 1913, Henry (and the MPU) became increasingly sidelined by the WSPU leadership, as Christabel Pankhurst now believed that only women should be engaged in acts of militancy for the cause. Henry was married but seldom spent time with his wife Margaret Wynne Nevison, herself a suffrage campaigner with the Women's Freedom League (WFL). He did spend much more time with WSPU activist Evelyn Sharp, whom he eventually married. In 1916, he was appointed chairman of the National Council for Adult Suffrage, which had formed from representatives of the NUWSS and the United Suffragists (US), as well as socialist and Labour Party leaders, to address the question of women's suffrage during the war.

Other Suffrage Activities: Henry was a renowned war correspondant and sympathiser of socialist causes.