Teresa Billington-Greig
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United KingdomLived 1877 to 1964 · aged 87Teresa Billington-Greig was a British writer and suffragette who was one of the founders of the Women's Freedom League in 1907. She had left the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) as she considered the leadership led by Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters too autocratic.
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Billington-Greig c. 1906
Billington-Greig greeting Helen Bourchier on her release form Holloway Prison. Other suffragettes pictured include Alison Neilans
The Vote 12th February. Executive Committee of Women’s Freedom League
Women's Freedom League colours and motto, 1908
Billington-Greig in 1928
Billington-Greig, c. 1950About this person
Teresa Billington-Greig was a British writer and suffragette who was one of the founders of the Women's Freedom League in 1907. She had left the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) as she considered the leadership led by Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters too autocratic. In 1904, she was appointed by the WSPU as a travelling speaker for the organisation. In Autumn 1906, Billington-Greig was tasked with drumming up support for branches of WSPU in Scotland. On 25 April 1906, she unveiled a "Votes for Women" banner from the Ladies Gallery during the debate in the House of Commons. In June 1906, she was arrested in a fracas outside of Chancellor of the Exchequer H. H. Asquith's home, and as a result was the first suffragette to be incarcerated in Holloway Prison.
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