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Emily Wilding Davison and the Northumberland connection
JON TAIT, whose great grandmother was called Davison, wonders whether his ancestors had any links with the legendary suffragette
Emily Wilding Davison is killed by the King's horse in 1913
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A DISTANT Canadian relative once asked if our family were related to the famous suffragette Emily Wilding Davison.
My third great grandmother was, you see, named Barbara Davison and came from a farm near the small Northumbrian village of Longhorsley that is connected to the celebrated member of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), who died of her injuries after walking out in front of the King’s horse Anmer at the 1913 Derby.
Emily’s political activism to secure the vote for women was much more than just that one infamous moment, however; she went on hunger strike seven times, was arrested on at least nine occasions, and famously hid in the Palace of Westminster on the night of the 1911 census.
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