Dora Thewlis (15 May 1890 – 1976) was a British suffragette whose arrest picture made the front page of the Daily Mirror[2] and other press.

[3][4] Dora was born on 15 May 1890,[5] at Shady Row in Meltham Mills,[6] near Huddersfield in the West Riding of Yorkshire.

She was one of seven children born to James and Eliza (née Taylor) Thewlis, who was from Woodbridge, Suffolk.

The family were socialists and her mother Eliza was quoted in the Huddersfield Weekly Examiner as saying that she had brought Dora up to read newspapers since the age of 7 and to debate politics.

[9] Thewlis emigrated to Australia before the start of the First World War, therefore never seeing the passage of women's suffrage in England, and in 1918 she married Jack Dow, who predeceased her in 1956.