Mrs Georgiana Margaret Solomon
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Widow
Born: 1844
Died: 1933
Place of birth: Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland
Main Suffrage Society: WSPU
Other Societies: US; LSWS
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 Saul Solomon in 1874, governor-general of the Cape Colony. He died in 1872 in Scotland. Her daughter Daisy Solomon was also a women's suffrage campaigner.
Additional Information: In 1907, Georgiana was a member of the London Society for Women's Suffrage (LSWS) and, in 1908, she joined the WSPU with her daughter Daisy Solomon. In 1909, she led a deputation to the House of Commons but was refused a meeting with the Prime Minister. She was arrested later that year for taking part in a similar deputation. Georgiana was also present on 'Black Friday', when suffrage protestors were treated violently by the police, and claimed to have been sexually assaulted by one of them. She served one month in prison for taking part in the WSPU window-smashing campaign in 1912, but left the WSPU in 1913 over the way that Emmeline and Frederick Pethick-Lawrence had been 'ousted' by the Pankhursts from the society. She later joined the breakaway group the United Suffragists (US).