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Arabella Scott (7 May 1886 – 27 August 1980) was a Scottish teacher, suffragette hunger striker and women's rights campaigner. [1] [2] As a member of the Women's Freedom League (WFL) she took a petition to Downing Street in July 1909. [1] She subsequently adopted more militant tactics with the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). [3]
Arabella Scott (1886–1980) – Scottish suffragette who endured five weeks of solitary confinement in Perth prison and force feeding twice a day; May Seaton-Tiedeman (1862–1948) – American-born campaigner in Britain for divorce law reform and suffragist
Muriel Eleanor Scott (1888–1963), was a Scottish suffragette, hunger striker, and protest organiser. Her sister Arabella Scott was force-fed many times, and Muriel Scott led protests about this cruel treatment.
former Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican, claimed his own 2010 win was an “exception” and that the state isn’t red or even purple, as many claim. “Wisconsin has historically been,” former ...
While imprisoned in Perth prison, Arabella Scott, Gordon and fellow militant suffragette Fanny Parker were subjected to force-feeding. [4] Dr Hugh Ferguson Watson had already subjected Ethel Moorhead to the treatment at Calton Prison in February 1914. The prisoners' mouths were held open by a metal device so that they could be fed by a funnel ...
Scott Walker is the former 45th governor of Wisconsin, a position he held from 2011 to 2019. During his tenure, he evoked massive protests over his Act 10 legislation, survived a recall election ...
Weir was born in 1957, in San Francisco, California, United States, to Scottish parents. [2] [3] She is the daughter of former British ambassador Sir Michael Weir and his wife, Alison (née Walker), [4] who had met while studying at the University of Oxford; her father was from Dunfermline and her mother was from the Scottish Borders, daughter of the headmaster of a small boarding school.
2002 - Walker is elected Milwaukee County Executive in a special election. He is reelected in 2004 and 2008. He is reelected in 2004 and 2008. Over the years, gives back a portion of his salary ...