Miss Aethel Tollemache
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Single
Born: 1874
Died: 1955
Place of birth: Rangoon, Yangon, Burma
Main Suffrage Society: WSPU
Other Societies: ELFS
Arrest Record: Yes
Recorded Entries: 2
Other sources: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4769024
Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866?1928 (1999)
Family information: Sister to Grace Tollemache, a suffragette.
Additional Information: Aethel took part in a number of deputations to the House of Commons and helped to organise for the WSPU in both Bath and Bristol. During the suffrage boycott of the government's census survey on the night of 2 April 1911, Aethel (with her sister Grace Tollemache) provided entertainment at an empty house in Lansdowne Crescent, where suffragette 'evaders' hid from census officials so that they or their details could not be recorded. Grace played the violin and Aethel the piano. Later that year, Aethel was sentenced to two weeks in prison for breaking windows at the National Liberal (Party) Club. In 1913, she was sentenced to one week in prison for wilful damage, and again in 1914 for protesting outside Buckingham Palace. She went on hunger strike in prison. Aethel at first supported the First World War but later became a pacifist and joined socialist and suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst's East London Federation of Suffragettes (ELFS).