Mary Ann Aldham

Mary Ann Aldham
Mary Ann Aldham in a Home Office surveillance photograph (c. 1914)
Born
Mary Ann Mitchell Wood

28 September 1858
Deptford, Kent, England
Died1940 (aged 81–82)
Uxbridge, Middlesex, England
OrganizationWomen's Social and Political Union

Mary Ann Aldham (born Mary Ann Mitchell Wood; 28 September 1858 – 1940) was an English suffragette and member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) who was imprisoned at least seven times. She went on hunger strike in prison where she was force-fed for which she received the WSPU's Hunger Strike Medal.

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