Patricia Woodlock (born Mary Winifred Woodlock; 25 October 1873 – after 1930)[1] was a British artist and suffragette who was imprisoned seven times, including serving the longest suffragette prison sentence in 1908 (solitary confinement for three months); she was awarded a Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) Hunger Strike Medal for Valour.

Her release was celebrated in Liverpool and London and drawn as a dreadnought warship, on the cover of the WSPU Votes for Women newspaper.

[7] In 1906, Woodlock was a founder member with Alice Morrissey, of the first Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) branch in Liverpool.

[15] In February 1909, Woodlock was a 'group captain' of those who organised a large suffrage event in the Sun Hall, when Christabel Pankhurst spoke.

[9] Woodlock's prison sentences that year included the longest given to a suffragette (three months solitary) at the time, as a persistent offender,[16] for obstruction offences at the protest on the visit of the Prime Minister, H.H.

[10] In support of Woodlock, Mary Phillips hid overnight under the Liverpool St. George's Hall stage[20] where honorary degrees were to be awarded to two Cabinet Ministers.

The women chased him at the golf course and also decorated his Clovelly Court rhododendron bushes and garden with circular green, white and purple cards saying 'Release Patricia Woodlock' and various other suffragette materials.

[16] Woodlock was given silver Holloway brooch, and a Hunger Strike Medal 'for Valour',[citation needed] an illuminated scroll and was called a 'brave pioneer'.

[16] There was a further reception on the prisoners' return to Liverpool,[21] led by Bertha Elam, a new WSPU member, who was said to be directly inspired to join the suffrage movement, by Woodlock.

[16] In September 1909, Woodlock was arrested again, for hurling roof slates at Prime Minister Asquith as he attended an all-male budget event in Birmingham.

[8] After the police aggression and brutal violence against the suffragette crowd in London in November 1910, known as 'Black Friday', Woodlock, was arrested with other protestors, who were all released without charge, and she no longer took part in further physical or militant protests.

[24] In 1910, Woodlock and Ada Flatman and Jennie Baines were main speakers at a Liverpool event for 'Jane Warton' – who was WSPU leader Lady Constance Lytton in disguise – her aim was to experience arrest, hunger strike and force-feeding (as an ordinary working woman).

[4] In 1912, local suffragette and women's physician, Dr. Alice Ker, wrote to her two daughters encouraging them to go to Woodlock at the WSPU offices and to offer their help to the cause.

[7] Woodlock also joined the Votes for Women Fellowship, led by the Pethick-Lawrences, and subscribed to The Catholic Suffragist [10] before and after the First World War began.