Lettice Floyd

However, by the following year, they had both lost patience with the conventional means of lobbying on the issue and joined the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU),[2] which was a militant group set up in Manchester by Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst.

Floyd was made a full-time paid organiser for the WSPU, based either in Bristol or Newcastle, and became romantically involved with another suffragette named Annie Williams.

[citation needed] In 1910, Floyd and Williams were based in Newcastle[1] when the Conciliation Bill, which would have included the right of women to vote, had its passage into through parliament stooped by Prime Minister Asquith.

The WSPU arranged for 300 protesters to support a deputation to the Prime Minister, led by Emmeline Pankhurst, including Hertha Ayrton, Dr Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Anne Cobden-Sanderson, and Princess Sophia Duleep Singh.

She bequeathed money to create a nursing home, and left what is now called "Floyd's Field" to the city of Coventry, as a sports facility.