Emily Davison, also a suffragette.
Obtained a first class honors degree at Oxford.
Campaigned for womens rights and was arrested and imprisoned on various occasions.
She went on hunger strike, was force fed and threw her self down a staircase in protest.
She was saved by some wire netting after falling 30 feet.
On June 11 1913 at the Epsom derby she ran out on to the hose track with a banner of the womens social and political union into the path of King George Vs horse and was trampled to death.
On 28th March 1918 women were granted the right to vote.
The first women to be elected as a member of parliament was Constance Markiewicz representing Sinn Fein.