Suffragette aliases

Tara Morton

Cloth embroidered with suffragette signatures (detail) - LSE Library

Women who were involved in suffrage campaigning sometimes used false names or aliases, occasionally to protect their families from unfair treatment by those opposed to women’s suffrage, but most often by law-breaking suffragettes wishing to evade the police and confuse the authorities. Several suffragette aliases were known to the police and some have since been identified by historians.

Below is a list of the names of suffragettes and their aliases, based on research by suffrage expert Elizabeth Crawford, with some appearing in the suffrage database.

Name	Alias
Mary Aldham	Mary Wood
Olive Bartels	Margaret Cunningham
Frances Bartlett	Frances Satterly
Olive Beamish	Phyllis Brady
Annie Bell	Hannah Booth; Elizabeth Bell
Hilda Burkitt	Byron
Kate Cardo	Catherine Swain
Eileen Casey	Eleanor Cleary; Irene Casey
Evelyn Cheshire	Evelyn Taylor
Gwendoline Cook	Ethel Cox
Helen Craggs	Helen Millar
Ethel Crawley	Mary Carlyn
Emily Wilding Davison	Mary Brown
Elsie Duval	Millicent Dean; Eveline Dukes
Emily Fussell	Georgina Lloyd
Theresa Garnett	Annie O’Sullivan
Florence Graves	Frances Gordon
Nellie Hall	Mary Roberts
Helen Hanson	Helen Rice
Edith Hudson	Mary Brown
Florence Hull	Mary Gray
Jessie Kenney	Constance Burrows; Mary Fordyce
Lilian Lenton	Ida/Ada Inkley
Leslie McMurdo	Leslie Lawless
Kitty Marion	Aunt Maggie
Selina Martin	Mary Richards
Ethel Moorhead	Margaret Morrison; Edith Johnson; Mary Humphreys
Elsie Myers	Marjorie Manners
Christabel Pankhurst	Amy Richards
Frances Parker	Janet Arthur
Rachel Peace	Jane Short
Mary Phillips	Margaret Paterson
Grace Roe	Grace Courtney
Grace Scholey	Freda Graham
Arabella Scott	Catherine Reid
Muriel Scott	Jane C Dark; Ellen Smith
Ella Stevenson	Ethel Slade
Geraldine Stevenson	Grace Stuart
Grace Cameron Swan	Greta Cameron
Mary Ellen (Nellie) Taylor	Mary Wyan
Olive Wharry	Joyce Lock(e); Phyllis North
Laetitia Withall	Leslie Hall
Gertrude Wilkinson	Jessie Howard