Muriel Scott

[4] Like other notable suffragettes, Muriel Scott used aliases in case she was arrested, for example Jane C. Dark, Ellen Smith,[5] and also when she was campaigning at by-elections.

[6] Muriel Scott was arrested in London in June 1909 with her sister Arabella, both were charged with obstruction, after attempting to give a petition to Prime Minister Asquith.

[7] Scott helped to organise the October 1909 Edinburgh suffrage procession, which attracted huge crowds, ten deep along Princes Street, with the march being described as 'a solid phalanx of resolute and unflinching womanhood bent upon obtaining the vote'.

[8] She did not get involved in further militant activities, but organised and spoke at public meetings or interrupted political events, e.g. when she and Arabella padlocked themselves to their seats so that they not be easily ejected.

[10] Along with fellow Edinburgh activist, Elizabeth Finlayson Gauld, Scott was in Stirling on 7 September 1912, again speaking outdoors from a hackney cab, which was decorated in the WSPU colours (purple, white and green).

[7][13] Arabella Scott was arrested, released and re-captured a number of times, under the 'Cat and Mouse' Act, where starving and force-fed prisoners were allowed out to recuperate but expected to return to complete their full sentences.