[citation needed] Henria's mother died in 1904, leaving a bequest which included stocks and shares in several railway companies and South African diamond mines.

It was a substantial home with three public rooms, four bedrooms, an attic, cellar, and outlying structures including a glasshouse, a stable, and a new two-bed cottage for her coachman, David Scott.

She was seen locally as a "rather eccentric lady": when in conversation "she poured forth a torrent of eloquence with great vivacity", and when listening to others in a meeting "she could not conceal her enthusiasm".

[1] Williams convened a local meeting on 28 November 1905, to hear from the leaders of the Women's Freedom League with Violet or Irene Tillard, and Alice Schofield speaking.

Williams was inspired to join larger events in the protest movement in London, taking part in canvassing and other demonstrations.

At their hearing at Bow Street Police Court on 9 July, the cases against Williams and others charged with obstruction were adjourned indefinitely, but 14 of the protesters were imprisoned for smashing windows of government buildings.

But he did not arrest me, but he actually left me alone for some time after that.Her rescuer, Frank Whitty, later wrote a letter on his shame at the violent treatment of women instead of arrests by policy, in the WSPU newsletter Votes for Women, as follows:[citation needed] I saw ... sights that made me feel ashamed of my country; one of the cruelist cases was that of a brave lady ... in a semi-fainting condition, so much so that she could hardly stand.

Other reports [citation needed] simply refer to a fleeting conversation which was halted before she could say much when a policeman whistled for a cab to escort Asquith, "much to the chagrin of the discontented suffragette".

At 3:00 a.m. the following day, a passing policeman "heard groans and a cry for assistance" and entered the house with the coachman through a window, finding Williams "in extremis".

The press[citation needed] concluded that Williams taking part in suffragette militancy could be seen as "conduct not at all congenial to one who suffered from a weak heart".

[5][1] There is evidence to show that Miss Henria Williams, who died suddenly of heart failure on January 1, had been used with great brutality, and was aware at the time of the effect upon her heart, which was weak.Williams's obituary notes:[7] She showed marvellous courage, but was terribly knocked about and came back to Caxton Hall [site of the famous Women's Parliament] ... with face and lips blackened by suffocation, the result of a severe heart attack.Her brother Llewellyn – who supported her campaigning – wrote:[9] She knowingly and willingly shortened her days in rendering services to the womanhood of the nation.Williams had the suffragette colours draping her coffin, and a wreath saying 'She hath done what she could,' and as it went to the St. Pancras Station midnight train to Glasgow, suffragettes came to pay respects.

The plaque read 'In memory of Henriette (sic) Williams, injured while on a deputation to the Prime Minister, November 18, 1910; died January 2, 1911.

"[2] Williams' legacy and tomb had fallen out of common knowledge, until members of the artist-led project Protests and Suffragettes were advised of the Scottish connection.

There were only two wreaths upon it, the one you sent from Clement's Inn and a cross of green with white lilies and broad purple ribbon sent from the Glasgow [WSPU] Union.