Emily Davison

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Emily Davison

Emily Davison was a suffregette (They fought for the rights of women to vote) who through herself under the kings horse at Epsom. On the 4th of June 1913 she took her life for what she believed in. The kings horse trampled her and she died of the injuries on the 8th of June.

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In 1906, she joined the Woman's Social and Political Union (WSPU) which was founded by Emily Pankhurst. After three years she quit her job as a teacher to be part of the movement full time. She got arrested many times and had experienced a number of short periods in jail for public disturbances and even burning post boxes. In 1909,she was jailed in Strangeways prison in Manchester because she threw rocks at the carriage of a Chancellor, David Lloyd George. After atempting to starve herself and resisted force feeding, a prison guard almost completely filled the cell with water but the door broke. She sued the guard and got 40 shillings.

Emily was born in Blackheath in Southeast London on the 11th of October 1872. She studied at the Royal Holloway College at oxford university eventhough women were not aloud to take degrees at that time. She died at the Epsom Darby after walking on the track in the midle of the Derby. She got trampled by the king George V's horse named Anmer.