Miss Leonora Helen Tyson

Gender: Female

Marital Status: Single

Born: 1883

Died: 1959

Place of birth: Bradford, Yorkshire, England

Main Suffrage Society: WSPU

Society Role: Honorary secretary

Arrest Record: Yes

Recorded Entries: 2

Sources:

Other sources: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4769024
https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/g11g9fmvgvm
Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866?1928 (1999)

Further Information:

Family information: Daughter to Helen Tyson.

Additional Information: Leonora joined the WSPU with her mother Helen Tyson. The two were arrested that year for taking part in a deputation to the House of Commons. Leonora became honorary secretary of the WSPU (London) Lambeth branch in 1910 and then the Streatham branch. In 1911, she took part in a protest in Bath, where she and others shouted and heckled the Prime Minister from the roof of a four-storey building when he was trying to give a speech. In 1912, she spent two months in prison for taking part in the WSPU's organised window-smashing campaign. In prison, she kept an autograph album signed by many fellow suffragette prisoners. This is now kept at the Museum of London.

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