Frances Olive Outerbridge (1846–1934) was a nurse and British suffragette, in 1912, she was rewarded the Women's Social and Political Union Hunger Strike Medal 'for Valour'.
[7] In 1898 Caroline and Frances were jointly presented with a silver plated tray “in appreciation of their self-sacrificing labours among the sick and poor of the parish [of St Marks Victoria Park] for ten years.
[10] At time of the 1921 census Caroline and Frances are living at the same address along with the adopted daughter Olive and her husband William and Dorothy, their one-year-old child.
It records Frances as having been arrested as part of the extensive window smashing on 1 March 1912 and she was subsequently sentenced to four months in prison.
She was charged for breaking a window the value of £8 at Pound and Co, trunk makers in Regent Street and was sentenced by the Magistrates to four months in prison, she was reported as saying: - “it was a political protest against injustice, made in her old age, and not with any malice”.
[17] The specific reasons for Frances using an alias is unclear but as discussed earlier the Outerbridges were a strongly influential family in Bermuda.