Miss Arabella Charlotte Scott

Other sources: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4769024
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

Family information: Father was an officer in the Indian army. Her sister Muriel Scott was also a suffrage campaigner.

Additional Information: On behalf of the Women's Freedom League (WFL) in 1909, Arabella delivered a petition to Downing Street. She was charged with obstruction and sentenced to three weeks in Holloway Prison, where she went on hunger strike. Once released, she continued working for the WFL as an active speaker, but by 1913 declared herself 'a strong advocate of militant methods' and drifted towards the WSPU. She was sentenced in Edinburgh to nine months in prison for attempting to set fire to a racecourse in Kelso, but was released after five days under the 'Cat and Mouse Act', after going on hunger strike. She went on the run as a 'mouse' and, when recaptured, went on hunger strike and was released again. On the run again, she started working as a WSPU organiser (using a false name) but was eventually recaptured in 1914 and sent back to prison. She began the well-practised cycle of hunger striking to ensure release but this time was forcibly fed by the authorities instead, who were determined not to release her again. Later in life, Arabella married and emigrated to Australia. Her sister Muriel Scott was also a suffrage campaigner and WFL member.