Laura Geraldine Lennox

She was one of the 500,000 women who marched in Hyde Park, London on Sunday 21 June 1908 protesting their right to the vote.

When Christabel Pankhurst wrote for a newspaper called TheSuffragette in 1912, Lennox was her sub-editor.

On one such occasion Lennox spotted the police waiting for her and with assistance, she escaped back to Cork.

[1][2][3][4] Lennox was awarded the Holloway brooch and Hunger Strike Medal for her activities.

Her brother was serving in the war and Lennox acted as nurse and administrator in the hotel.