[1] Throughout Lily's childhood, Margaret Argent and her sisters Annie Price, Harriet Griffiths and Elizabeth Winter made regular appearances in the courts for alcohol-related public order offences.

[6] In August 1905, having moved out of the family home in the intervening years, the 19-year-old Lily Argent received her first criminal conviction,[7] a prosecution for drunkenness.

[10][B] It appears that this narrow escape finally turned Lily Argent away from a life of crime, and she was never again to be arrested for theft, although she continued to work as a prostitute.

[13] Her daughter gradually became an alcoholic, and in May 1909, after not coming to the notice of the authorities for over three years,[13] Lily Argent was again arrested for riotous behaviour and imprisoned for a month.

[13] By this time Argent was living in Michael and Margaret Bumster's boarding-house at 68 Strand,[16] and continuing to work as a prostitute.

[17] On 13 December 1916, by this time suffering from severe tuberculosis, Lily Bumster died of cardiac failure, aged 30.