[2] Her parents were Reverend Clement Reginald Tollemache and Frances Josephine Simpson.
In November 1907, Tollemache and Blathwayt attended a Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) meeting at the Victoria Rooms, Bristol,[1][7] where they heard speeches by Christabel Pankhurst, Emmeline Pethick Lawrence and Annie Kenney.
[12] In 1913, when Tollemache spoke in Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, with Barbara Wylie, the women had to be escorted to the railway station by the Police in order to protect them from a crowd of young men who had howled at and rushed at them.
[1] Tollemache became a pacifist and vegetarian[14] and joined Sylvia Pankhurst’s East London Federation of Suffragettes.
[3] In 1917, she was arrested in Leytonstone, London, while collecting signatures for a peace memorial but was released with a warning and told that if she continued she would be prosecuted under the Defence of the Realm Act.