Laura Geraldine Lennox

Laura Geraldine Lennox was born in Durrus, County Cork, Ireland on 27 April 1883. She became a suffragette in London, organising Irish women for the 1908 Hyde Park march and later enduring hunger strikes in Bristol Prison. During the First World War she nursed at the Hotel Majestic in Paris, where her brother died and her own health broke. She returned to London after the war to found a typing agency for widowed women and helped create the Women's Pioneer Housing before dying in 1958.