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Elizabeth Thomson (suffragist)
Elizabeth Thomson (14 September 1847 – 1918) was a Scottish suffragette and a member of the Edinburgh branch of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). She was arrested for her involvement in WSPU protests in Scotland and London alongside her sister, Agnes. The sisters were involved in the first arson attempt in Scotland as part of the WSPU arson campaign in 1913. Elizabeth was awarded a Hunger Strike Medal 'for valour' by the WSPU. Early life Elizabeth Thomson was born on 14 September 1847 in Glasgow to Margaret Agnes Thomson and Robert Dundas Thomson, M.D, a physician. At age 11, in 1848, Thomson began attending the independent day school Queen's College, London. In 1866, Thomson briefly lived in Geneva, Switzerland – returning two years later to England to live in Richmond. By 1881, both Thomson sisters had moved with their widowed mother to Hartington Place in Edinburgh. The 1881 census further records the three women as living on "income from heinterest o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glasgow, Scotland
Glasgow is the Cities of Scotland, most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in Strathclyde, west central Scotland. It is the List of cities in the United Kingdom, third-most-populous city in the United Kingdom and the 27th-most-populous city in Europe, and comprises Wards of Glasgow, 23 wards which represent the areas of the city within Glasgow City Council. Glasgow is a leading city in Scotland for finance, shopping, industry, culture and fashion, and was commonly referred to as the "second city of the British Empire" for much of the Victorian era, Victorian and Edwardian eras. In , it had an estimated population as a defined locality of . More than 1,000,000 people live in the Greater Glasgow contiguous urban area, while the wider Glasgow City Region is home to more than 1,800,000 people (its defined functional urban area total was almost the same in 2020), around a third of Scotland's population. The city has a population density of 3,562 p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
