Edith Marian Begbie

Edith Marian Begbie (8 February 1866 – 27 March 1932) was a militant Scottish suffragette and member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) who went on hunger strike in Winson Green Prison in Birmingham in 1912 and who was awarded the WSPU's Hunger Strike Medal.

[2] The couple's second daughter, Florence Geraldine Macfarlane (1867–1944) who sometimes using the pseudonym Muriel Muir was also to take an active role in the suffrage movement.

In 1856 John Macfarlane joined the family business making wire cloth products and which also moved into paper milling.

On their release from prison both sisters were unwell and appeared very frail; Florence continued with her militant campaign for women's suffrage but Edith Begbie was not arrested again.

The child kneeling in front of the hammock is three year old Paul Lamartine Yates, the son of Rose Emma Lamartine Yates, the Organising Secretary and Treasurer of the Wimbledon branch of the WSPU and at whose home, Dorset Hall in Merton Park the photograph was taken in about 1912.