Florence Haig

[1] She was an artist and her pastel of the physicist John Tyndall was photographed and a copy is in the National Portrait gallery.

[3] Haig and her sister, Evelyn, started a local branch of the WSPU in Edinburgh, but she then left for London.

Haig was met by a young Grace Roe when suffragettes were chalking the pavement in Kensington High Street.

[4] Haig invited Roe to the demonstration at Hyde Park and she went and was inspired by Christabel Pankhurst.

Haig became a founder member of East London Federation of Suffragettes and had her artist studio in Limehouse, and co-ordinated all classes of women to campaign together.

Her parents had set land aside to plant an individual tree for each WSPU member sentenced to prison for the cause.

The trees and the photographs recorded their achievements, known as 'Annie's Arboretum' after suffragette Annie Kenney, one of the first to recuperate at the Blathwayts.

Haig was given a Hunger Strike Medal 'for Valour' by WSPU.The citation engraved on the bar is 'For Valour' and the inscription says"PRESENTED BY THE WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION IN RECOGNITION OF A GALLANT ACTION, WHEREBY THROUGH ENDURANCE TO THE LAST EXTREMITY OF HUNGER AND HARDSHIP A GREAT PRINCIPLE OF POLITICAL JUSTICE WAS VINDICATED.

The "Women's Parliament" 24 February 1909
cartoon of woman in suffragette colours smashing windows