Ellen Pitfield (c. 1857 – August 1912) was a British midwife, nurse, suffragette and member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU).
[3][4][5] In 1911, Pitfield participated in the suffragette 1911 census boycott, whilst she was working and residing at the New Hospital for Women in Euston Road, London.
[6] She travelled into central London on 3rd March, then entered the King Edward Street Post office and set fire to a basket of wood shavings soaked in paraffin.
[8] She also threw a brick, wrapped in copies of the Votes For Women newspaper, through a window of the building and immediately gave herself up to a nearby police constable to raise publicity for the cause.
[2][11] The British Journal of Nursing reported her imprisonment and later death, calling her "a faithful and devoted servant of suffering humanity".