Charlotte Blacklock

[2] Blacklock joined the London Chelsea branch of the Women's Social and Political Union before November 1908, when she wrote in Votes for Women about the parades wearing 'placards of purple, green, and white....acting the part of sandwich men'[2] and speakers Mrs Penn Gaskell, Miss Naylor and (coming soon) Miss Canning being used to attract a 'fashionable audience' in Sloane Square.

[3] In April the following year, Blacklock was writing about the Chelsea Art Stall for WSPU and visit by author Laurence Housman, co-founder of the Men's League for Women's Suffrage.

[2] Blacklock was also among the first of seeking what would now be called 'crowdfunders' to help pay the rent for a local shop for merchandising materials for the WSPU in Chelsea[4] Blacklock was arrested on 11 March 1912, for breaking windows of Charles Lynton in Picadilly, London which were valued at £6 15shillings, a point disputed by her defence at the trial.

[9] Blacklock was awarded one of the one hundred Hunger Strike Medals 'for Valour' with the date 1 March 1912 on the bar, in recognition of her suffering for the cause by the WSPU.

[10] Since 2011[11] her medal has been displayed in the Museum of Australian Democracy,[12] with a portrait of her painted by her cousin Amy Sawyers.