Mary Ann Hilliard

She was arrested for breaking windows in March 1912, and while imprisoned contributed to the Suffragette Handkerchief.

[1] Known as Minnie, she trained as a nurse in England from 1876 and was a senior staff member at the Alexandra Children's Hospital, Bloomsbury, London in 1908.

[2] Hilliard was involved in the suffragette window-breaking by around 200 protestors in March 1912, and was arrested and sentenced to two months hard labour.

[6] Signatories include Eileen Mary Casey, Alice Davies, Edith Downing, Katharine Gatty, Margaret Macfarlane, Helen MacRae, Alice Maud Shipley, Frances Williams and other leading women from WSPU mass window-smashing protests.

[citation needed] Her health deteriorated in the 1920s and she retired from nursing to live in Wembley, London.