Kate Williams Evans

Kate Williams Evans (1 October 1866 – 2 February 1961) was a Welsh suffragette, activist and campaigner for women's rights.

In March 1912 she was arrested for "malicious damage" for breaking the windows of government offices in London along with other suffragettes, including Caroline Lowder Downing and Edith Downing, for which she was sentenced to 54 days hard labour in Holloway Prison[2] where she went on hunger strike leading her to being awarded the WSPU's Hunger Strike Medal and Holloway brooch on her release from prison.

[2] By 1939 Evans and her sister Margaret were living together at their parents' estate Bod Gwylim in Wales,[5] where they remained until their deaths.

[6] In 2018 her Hunger Strike Medal, Holloway brooch and her archive of papers including her Metropolitan Police arrest warrant, an autograph book containing the pencilled signatures with hand-written pencil autographs from such suffragettes as Emily Davison, Emmeline Pankhurst and Sarah Benett were sold at auction.

The sale lot included a hand-written letter from fellow inmate and suffragette Sarah Benett to her maid Jane which reads: 'Miss Evans will be my guest till she is a little stronger.