Key Characters

Question 1

David Lloyd George

Answer 1

A new liberal who supported votes for women but got very frustrated by the WSPU

Question 2

Emily Pankhurst

Answer 2

Leader of the WSPU (suffragettes)

Question 3

Sylvia Pankhurst

Answer 3

Leading member of the WPSU who formed the breakaway movement: Women’s Suffrage Federation. She did not support the war effort.

Question 4

Christabel Pankhurst

Answer 4

Co leader of the WPSU who fled to Paris in 1912

Question 5

Milicent Fawcett

Answer 5

The leader of the NUWSS (Suffragists)

Question 6

Annie Kenney

Answer 6

Militant suffragette arrested 13 times. Became leader in 1912 when Christabel Pankhurst fled to Paris.

Question 7

Henry Campbell Bannerman

Answer 7

Prime Minister between 1906 and 1908. Told women to prove themselves worthy of the vote

Question 8

Herbert Asquith

Answer 8

Prime Minister between 1908 and 1916. Not keen on women voting and annoyed the WSPU (Suffragettes) and the NUWSS (suffragists) by stalling on the conciliation bill in 1910. Adopted a very hard line approach to the WSPU.

Question 9

Emily Davidson

Answer 9

Militant Suffragette who jumped in front of the king’s horse.

Question 10

Elizabeth Garret Anderson

Answer 10

First female doctor who qualified when the London medical school started to allow women in 1878

Question 11

Mary Humphry Ward

Answer 11

The first president of the Anti-suffrage league