Edith Rigby (née Rayner) (18 October 1872 – 23 July 1950) was an English suffragette who used arson as a way to further the cause of women’s suffrage.

They went to prison for seven days except for Rigby as her father paid the fine claiming that she was just in bad company of "hired women".

[4][5] Her activism included planting a bomb in the Liverpool Cotton Exchange on 5 July 1913,[11] and although it was later stated in court that ‘no great damage had been done by the explosion’, Mrs Rigby was found guilty and sentenced to nine months' imprisonment with hard labour.

[14][15] The property, near Rivington Pike on the West Pennine Moors, contained a number of valuable paintings and the attack resulted in damage costing £20,000.

[12] Afterwards she said: I want to ask Sir William Lever whether he thinks his property on Rivington Pike is more valuable as one of his superfluous houses occasionally opened to people, or as a beacon lighted to King and Country to see here are some intolerable grievances for women.

[5] With short hair and wearing men's clothes, she grew fruit and vegetables and kept animals and bees, following the teachings of Rudolf Steiner.

[1] In 1926, Charles Rigby retired and the couple built a new house, called Erdmuth, outside Llanrhos, North Wales.

[4] Into old age she enjoyed a healthy lifestyle, bathing in the sea, fell walking and meditating in the early hours of every morning.