Miss Grace Tollemache
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Single
Born: 1871
Place of birth: Rangoon, Yangon, Burma
Main Suffrage Society: WSPU
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: Sister to Aethel Tollemache, a suffragette.
Additional Information: Grace joined the WSPU in 1910 and was secretary of the Bath branch by 1913. Grace, with her sister Aethel Tollemache, provided entertainment for suffrage 'evaders' in Bath who were hiding from government census survey officials in a house in Lansdowne Crescent on the night of 2 April 1911. Grace played the violin and her sister the piano, to keep spirits high. Grace joined the 1912 WSPU window-smashing campaign and was sentenced to two months with hard labour. The two sisters protested and interrupted several meetings held by Cabinet ministers, and Grace was arrested with her sister for protesting outside Buckingham Palace in 1914. She was only held for one day in prison but her sister was treated more harshly and had gone on hunger strike. Grace subsequently smashed a window at Buckingham Palace during a banquet in protest, but the King did not press charges.