Helen Ogston

Helen Ogston
detail of newspaper illustration by Samuel Begg
Born
Helen Charlotte Elizabeth Douglas Ogston

(1882-06-10)10 June 1882
Aberdeen, Scotland
Died4 July 1973(1973-07-04) (aged 91)
Malvern, Worcestershire, England
NationalityUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
EducationUniversity of Aberdeen
OccupationSuffragette
EmployerWSPU
Spouses
  • Dr Eugene Dunbar Townroe
  • Granville Havelock Bullimore
Parent(s)Isabella and Prof Sir Alexander Ogston

Helen Charlotte Elizabeth Ogston later Townroe and then Bullimore (1882 – 1973) was a Scottish suffragette known for interrupting David Lloyd George on 5 December 1908 at a meeting in the Royal Albert Hall and subsequently holding off the stewards with a dog whip.[1]

  1. ^ Leneman, Leah (1991). A guid cause : the women's suffrage movement in Scotland. [Aberdeen]: Aberdeen University Press. ISBN 0080412017. OCLC 24510440.

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