Miss Daisy Dorothea Solomon
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Single
Born: 1882
Place of birth: Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Main Suffrage Society: WSPU
Other Societies: US
Society Role: Secretary (WSPU)
Arrest Record: Yes
Recorded Entries: 1
Other sources: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4769024
https://blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2018/02/14/daisy-solomon/
Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866?1928 (1999)
Family information: Daughter of Georgiana Solomon.
Additional Information: Daisy joined the WSPU in 1908, quickly becoming involved in a publicity stunt where she was sent out as a 'human letter', priced three pence, to Downing Street to advertise a forthcoming deputation. She was arrested at that deputation in 1909, as she claimed, 'for not moving out of the way of the police quickly enough'. She was sentenced to one month in prison. She became secretary of the Hampstead branch of the WSPU in London between 1912 and 1913, and is listed as one of the WSPU's secretaries until 1916. In 1918, she was a member of the WSPU breakaway group the United Suffragists (US) and literature secretary of the British Dominions Woman Suffrage Union, perhaps reflecting her South African roots.
Other Suffrage Activities: After the war, Daisy continued to be involved in reforming organisations. In 1923, she was a representative of the British Commonwealth League and, by 1926, was honorary secretary of the Equal Political Rights Campaign Committee, which worked to extend the vote to women aged 21 and over.