[8] Then on 30 June 1908 she was arrested with Elsie Howey and imprisoned in Holloway for a month on charges of obstructing the police.

[8] On 17 September 1909 Marsh, Mary Leigh and Patricia Woodlock[7] climbed onto the roof of Bingley Hall in Birmingham to protest at being excluded from a political meeting where the British Prime Minister Asquith was giving a speech.

[6][10] Marsh was reported to have been fed by tube 139 times during this imprisonment and released two days later that was the norm for when her father's fatal illness.

Mary's mother, Evelyn Blathwayt, recorded that Marsh was not eating meat but seemed to have recovered from her imprisonment.

[5] Marsh refused to complete the 1911 census, and was recorded as spending the census night at St James Hall, Landport returning home to 4 Pelham Road, Portsmouth the next day and "absolutely refuses to full up paper".

[13] During World War I she worked as a mechanic and chauffeur for David Lloyd George, whilst continuing her activism.

Moreover, he wanted to employ a woman as he was campaigning for women to join the workforce to replace then men who were in the armed forces.

[18][5] A blue plaque was created in 2018 -- to commemorate Marsh and the local suffragettes on the centenary of women over 30 getting the vote a hundred years earlier -- at 43 Howard Road, Dorking.