Margaret Milne Farquharson

Margaret Milne McConnachie Farquharson (17 August 1884 – after 1936) was a Scottish suffragette, MP candidate and leader of the National Political League campaigning for Palestine.

[4] In 1911 the National Political League, NPL, was formed, led by its president Mary Adelaide Broadhurst.

[8] In 1913 they organised a meeting at Kingsway Hall where 1,500 people including George Bernard Shaw attended to discuss and protest the Force-feeding of hunger striking suffragettes.

[11] From March to May 1930 the British police kept her and the anti-semite fascist Robert Gordon Canning under observation to monitor their interactions with a delegation sent to London by the executive committee of the Palestine Arab Congress (ECPAC).

[12] The NPL was funded by leading Muslims and UK government cabinet members were advised to avoid it.