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title="England">England</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Organization(s)</th><td class="infobox-data org"><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Social_and_Political_Union" title="Women's Social and Political Union">Women's Social and Political Union</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Police_Service" title="Women's Police Service">Women's Police Service</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Mary Sophia Allen</b> <a href="/wiki/OBE" class="mw-redirect" title="OBE">OBE</a> (12 March 1878 – 16 December 1964) was a British political activist known for her defence of <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_rights" title="Women's rights">women's rights</a> in the 1910–1920s and later involvement with <a href="/wiki/British_fascism" title="British fascism">British fascism</a>. She is chiefly noted as one of the early leaders of the <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Police_Volunteers" class="mw-redirect" title="Women's Police Volunteers">Women's Police Volunteers</a>. Allen repeatedly sought to challenge or modernise the existing systems of the time, ensuring the Women's Police Service could become an auxiliary force after women were admitted into certain British police forces. She stood once for the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons" title="House of Commons">House of Commons</a> as an <a href="/wiki/Independent_Liberals_(UK,_1931)" title="Independent Liberals (UK, 1931)">Independent Liberal</a>, turning over her Women's Auxiliary Service to breaking the <a href="/wiki/General_Strike_of_1926" class="mw-redirect" title="General Strike of 1926">General Strike of 1926</a>. Thereafter she met and talked with <a href="/wiki/Fascism_in_Europe" title="Fascism in Europe">European fascists</a> and <a href="/wiki/Anti-communism" title="Anti-communism">anti-communist</a> brigades, entailing frequent trips abroad and publicly joining the <a href="/wiki/British_Union_of_Fascists" title="British Union of Fascists">British Union of Fascists</a> in 1939. In retirement, Allen was an activist for <a href="/wiki/Animal_rights" title="Animal rights">animal rights</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_years">Early years</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mary_Sophia_Allen&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early years"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Allen was born to a well-to-do family in <a href="/wiki/Cardiff" title="Cardiff">Cardiff</a> in 1878, one of the ten children of Thomas Isaac Allen, Chief Superintendent of the <a href="/wiki/Great_Western_Railway" title="Great Western Railway">Great Western Railway</a>. Allen was close to her sisters, all of whom had a tendency to <a href="/wiki/Religious_mysticism" class="mw-redirect" title="Religious mysticism">religious mysticism</a>. She was educated at home and later at <a href="/wiki/Princess_Helena_College" title="Princess Helena College">Princess Helena College</a>. <sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She left home at the age of thirty in 1908 after a disagreement with her father about <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom">women's suffrage</a>, She did not return home until he died in December 1911.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Allen joined <a href="/wiki/Emmeline_Pankhurst" title="Emmeline Pankhurst">Emmeline Pankhurst</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Social_and_Political_Union" title="Women's Social and Political Union">Women's Social and Political Union</a>, becoming an organiser in the <a href="/wiki/South_West_England" title="South West England">South West</a>, and later in <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a>. She was imprisoned three times in 1909 for smashing windows, including at the Inland Revenue and Liberal Club in <a href="/wiki/Bristol" title="Bristol">Bristol</a> and at the <a href="/wiki/Home_Office" title="Home Office">Home Office</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> twice went on <a href="/wiki/Hunger_strike#Notable_historical_instances" title="Hunger strike">hunger-strike</a>, and was <a href="/wiki/Force-feeding#United_Kingdom" title="Force-feeding">force-fed</a> on the last occasion, for which she was awarded a <a href="/wiki/Hunger_strike_medal" class="mw-redirect" title="Hunger strike medal">Hunger Strike Medal</a> 'for Valour' by <a href="/wiki/Emmeline_Pethick-Lawrence" title="Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence">Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ox_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ox-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Whilst in prison, Allen and others sewed prison shirts with secretly embroidered messages such as 'Votes for Women' in the <a href="/wiki/Shirt_Tails" title="Shirt Tails">shirt tails</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="First_World_War">First World War</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mary_Sophia_Allen&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: First World War"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Women_at_work_during_the_First_World_War_Q108495.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Women_at_work_during_the_First_World_War_Q108495.jpg/198px-Women_at_work_during_the_First_World_War_Q108495.jpg" decoding="async" width="198" height="290" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Women_at_work_during_the_First_World_War_Q108495.jpg/297px-Women_at_work_during_the_First_World_War_Q108495.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Women_at_work_during_the_First_World_War_Q108495.jpg/396px-Women_at_work_during_the_First_World_War_Q108495.jpg 2x" data-file-width="546" data-file-height="800" /></a><figcaption><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Mary Sophia Allen (right) and <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Damer_Dawson" title="Margaret Damer Dawson">Margaret Damer Dawson</a> during World War I.</div></figcaption></figure><p>At the outbreak of the <a href="/wiki/First_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="First World War">First World War</a>, militant <a href="/wiki/Suffragette" title="Suffragette">suffragist</a> activities ceased. Allen turned down an offer of work with a <a href="/wiki/Needlework" title="Needlework">needlework</a> guild (similar to the <a href="/wiki/Queen_Mother%27s_Clothing_Guild" title="Queen Mother's Clothing Guild">Queen Mother's Clothing Guild</a>) and looked around for a more active occupation. She heard that a number of women were working to establish a women's police force and, in 1914, she joined <a href="/wiki/Nina_Boyle" title="Nina Boyle">Nina Boyle</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Women_Police_Volunteers" class="mw-redirect" title="Women Police Volunteers">Women Police Volunteers</a>. This was taken over by <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Damer_Dawson" title="Margaret Damer Dawson">Margaret Damer Dawson</a> in 1915 and renamed the Women Police Service (WPS), with Allen as second-in-command. They designed their own uniform and opened training schools in London and <a href="/wiki/Bristol" title="Bristol">Bristol</a>. They saw their role as mainly dealing with women and children and rescuing women from "vice" (prostitution) and '<a href="/wiki/Sexual_slavery" title="Sexual slavery">white slavery</a>'. Allen served at <a href="/wiki/Grantham" title="Grantham">Grantham</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kingston_upon_Hull" title="Kingston upon Hull">Kingston upon Hull</a>, overseeing the morals of women around army barracks. She went on to police wartime munitions factories which employed large numbers of women. She also worked in London, where 'khaki fever' (women swooning over soldiers) was perceived as a problem.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Child_welfare" class="mw-redirect" title="Child welfare">Child welfare</a> work led the WPS to set up a benevolent department and a <a href="/wiki/Maternity_home" title="Maternity home">home for mothers and babies</a>. Allen was awarded the <a href="/wiki/OBE" class="mw-redirect" title="OBE">OBE</a> for services during the War.<sup id="cite_ref-ox_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ox-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Allen and Commandant Margaret Damer Dawson <a href="/wiki/Crop_(hairstyle)" class="mw-redirect" title="Crop (hairstyle)">cropped their hair</a> and assumed a severe military appearance, and Allen wore her police uniform in public for the rest of her life. In 1915 Dawson made a <a href="/wiki/Will_(law)" class="mw-redirect" title="Will (law)">will</a> which left everything to Allen; when Dawson died unexpectedly in 1920, Allen assumed the role of WPS Commandant.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After the War, the WPS was expected to disband, as the authorities saw no further need for it. The <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Police" title="Metropolitan Police">Metropolitan Police</a> (the Met) set up its own women's division and accused the WPS of masquerading as Metropolitan policewomen. Allen was even arrested in 1921 for wearing a Metropolitan Police uniform, but it was decided that her activities, which included producing dossiers on left-wing activists, were harmless and she should be allowed to continue wearing it.<sup id="cite_ref-Pugh102_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pugh102-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The WPS changed their name to the Women's Auxiliary Service (WAS) and, with minor modifications to their uniform, carried on as before, setting up a further training school in Edinburgh. The Government appointed the Baird Committee to investigate the activities of the WAS. Despite no longer being recognised by the authorities, Allen was invited by the Government to travel to Germany and advise on the policing of the <a href="/wiki/British_Army_of_the_Rhine" title="British Army of the Rhine">British Army of the Rhine</a>. This semi-acceptance encouraged her to represent herself overseas as chief of the British women police. She travelled in uniform and was welcomed by police authorities in Europe and in South and North America. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Politics">Politics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mary_Sophia_Allen&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Politics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-More_citations_needed_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs additional citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Mary_Sophia_Allen" title="Special:EditPage/Mary Sophia Allen">improve this article</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a> in this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">June 2020</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>In November 1922 Allen stood unsuccessfully for <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Parliament of the United Kingdom">Parliament</a> as a candidate for <a href="/wiki/Westminster_St_George%27s_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Westminster St George's (UK Parliament constituency)">Westminster St George's</a>. During the <a href="/wiki/General_Strike_of_1926" class="mw-redirect" title="General Strike of 1926">General Strike of 1926</a> Allen was involved with the <a href="/wiki/Organisation_for_the_Maintenance_of_Supplies" title="Organisation for the Maintenance of Supplies">Organisation for the Maintenance of Supplies</a> and turned her Women's Auxiliary Service over to the strike-breaking movement.<sup id="cite_ref-Pugh102_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pugh102-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p> Allen <a href="/wiki/Aviator" class="mw-redirect" title="Aviator">learned to fly</a>. She attended international police congresses in Austria and Germany. She also visited the Netherlands, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Turkey and Brazil, advising on the training of police women. She travelled to Egypt in 1936 on holiday (wearing her uniform), but was received as if sent by the police authorities in Britain. Her interest in combatting prostitution continued to be a preoccupation, and she attended the <a href="/wiki/League_of_Nations" title="League of Nations">League of Nations</a> conference in <a href="/wiki/Geneva" title="Geneva">Geneva</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Human_trafficking" title="Human trafficking">traffic in women</a>. Wherever she went, she was perceived by many as the leading British policewoman. She did nothing to discourage the impression, and made contact with police chiefs and political leaders all over Europe.</p><figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1922_Mary_Allen.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e2/1922_Mary_Allen.jpg/220px-1922_Mary_Allen.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="202" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e2/1922_Mary_Allen.jpg/330px-1922_Mary_Allen.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e2/1922_Mary_Allen.jpg/440px-1922_Mary_Allen.jpg 2x" data-file-width="657" data-file-height="602" /></a><figcaption>Mary Allen in 1922.</figcaption></figure><p>The <a href="/wiki/Home_Office" title="Home Office">Home Office</a> began to take an interest in Allen's activities in 1927. She was becoming an embarrassment and a nuisance to the Government, partly because of her acceptance abroad as representing the British authorities, and partly because she was mistaken for a Metropolitan police officer at home. Home Office records covering the period 1927–1934 reveal that she kept dossiers on people she suspected of activities connected with vice and white slavery. She was also suspected of <a href="/wiki/Fascism" title="Fascism">fascist activities</a>, and articles by or about her in national newspapers increased the Home Office surveillance. </p><p>Allen met a number of fascist leaders abroad, including <a href="/wiki/Eoin_O%27Duffy" title="Eoin O'Duffy">Eoin O'Duffy</a> in Ireland, <a href="/wiki/Francisco_Franco" title="Francisco Franco">Franco</a> in Spain, <a href="/wiki/Benito_Mussolini" title="Benito Mussolini">Mussolini</a> in Italy, and <a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Hitler</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hermann_G%C3%B6ring" title="Hermann Göring">Göring</a> in Germany. Although her links to <a href="/wiki/Oswald_Mosley" title="Oswald Mosley">Oswald Mosley</a>'s <a href="/wiki/British_Union_of_Fascists" title="British Union of Fascists">British Union of Fascists</a> were unofficial until 1939, she engaged in various militant activities, including the formation of the Women's Reserve in 1933, which was intended to resist leftist sedition and insurrection. The publicity for the Women's Reserve reveals her fascist sympathies, and her <a href="/wiki/Anti-communism" title="Anti-communism">fear of communism</a>. </p><p>She met Hitler in 1934 and discussed women police with him. She was captivated by Hitler and was vocal in her admiration. Once she had joined the British Union of Fascists (BUF), she wrote numerous enthusiastic articles for its newspapers. Suspicions arose about her contacts with Germany, and a Suspension Order was made against her under the <a href="/wiki/Defence_of_the_Realm_Act_1914" title="Defence of the Realm Act 1914">Defence of the Realm Act</a>. Her home was searched, and internment was considered, but not enforced. She was suspected of making flights to Germany, and acting as a spy for the <a href="/wiki/Nazism" title="Nazism">Nazis</a>, but this was never proven. </p><p>Following the outbreak of <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> Allen joined the <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Voluntary_Service" class="mw-redirect" title="Women's Voluntary Service">Women's Voluntary Service</a> but also became a regular speaker at BUF peace rallies. Outrage followed with <i><a href="/wiki/Daily_Herald_(UK_newspaper)" class="mw-redirect" title="Daily Herald (UK newspaper)">Daily Herald</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Daily_Mirror" title="Daily Mirror">Daily Mirror</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/News_Chronicle" title="News Chronicle">News Chronicle</a></i> stories calling for Allen's removal from the WVS, particularly after comments in which she refused to condemn Hitler.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Due to her close connections to Mosley and <a href="/wiki/Barry_Domvile" title="Barry Domvile">Barry Domvile</a>, <a href="/wiki/Special_Branch_(Metropolitan_Police)" title="Special Branch (Metropolitan Police)">Special Branch</a> regarded Allen with some suspicion. There were also questions in the House of Commons from the Labour MP <a href="/wiki/Glenvil_Hall" title="Glenvil Hall">Glenvil Hall</a> in June 1940 as to whether Allen's continued nominal presence on the Advisory Council of the <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Voluntary_Service" class="mw-redirect" title="Women's Voluntary Service">Women's Voluntary Service</a> represented a security risk.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After a review of her activities and a study of her personality and associates, the government declined to detain her under <a href="/wiki/Defence_Regulation_18B" title="Defence Regulation 18B">Defence Regulation 18B</a>. The final report was dismissive, describing her as a "crank...trailing round in a ridiculous uniform".<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Eventually however she was placed under light detention as a precaution, being restricted to within a five-mile radius of her <a href="/wiki/Cornwall" title="Cornwall">Cornwall</a> home and banned from using cars, bicycles, telephones and the wireless.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mary_Sophia_Allen&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Allen was known as 'Robert' by her close circle of female friends, and she was called 'Sir' by her officers. Her friends included Margaret Damer Dawson, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Isobel_Goldingham&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Isobel Goldingham (page does not exist)">Isobel Goldingham</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Helen_Bourn_Tagart&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Helen Bourn Tagart (page does not exist)">Helen Bourn Tagart</a>, all of whom she met in her policing days.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2015)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> She wrote three volumes of autobiography: <i>The Pioneer Policewoman</i> (1925), <i>A Woman at the Cross Roads</i> (1934), and <i>Lady in Blue</i> (1936). <i>A Woman at the Cross Roads</i> reveals aspects of her life and philosophy but is reticent about her private life. It was written at the time when Allen met Hitler, and her political views are made plain: she was at a crossroads in her life because she was looking at fascism as a solution to the world problems that she perceived. She also wrote numerous articles for newspapers and magazines, and founded <i>The Policewomen’s Review</i>, which ran from 1927 to 1937, to which she was a major contributor. </p><p>Few details of Allen's personal life are available after the <a href="/wiki/Second_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Second World War">Second World War</a>. She continued to be associated with Mosley and other fascists, including <a href="/wiki/Norah_Elam" title="Norah Elam">Norah Elam</a> with whom she shared a lifelong friendship. Both had been members of the WSPU, and as militant suffragettes had undergone force feeding. They both turned to <a href="/wiki/Animal_rights" title="Animal rights">animal activism</a> after the demise of the Mosley movement, being staunch anti-vivisectionists and members of the London and Provincial <a href="/wiki/Anti-Vivisection_Society" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-Vivisection Society">Anti-Vivisection Society</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-McPherson_&_McPherson_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McPherson_&_McPherson-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She always had a strong interest in religion, without any particular affiliation. She converted to <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholicism" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholicism">Roman Catholicism</a> in 1953,<sup id="cite_ref-ox_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ox-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and died in a nursing home in <a href="/wiki/Croydon" title="Croydon">Croydon</a> at age 86, attended by her sister Christine. </p><p>Allen's biographer Nina Boyd<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> suggests that in the novel <i><a href="/wiki/That_Hideous_Strength" title="That Hideous Strength">That Hideous Strength</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/C._S._Lewis" title="C. S. Lewis">C. S. Lewis</a>, the character of "Fairy" Hardcastle is based on Allen: she is a sadistic, epicene ex-suffragette turned security director for a tyrannical scientific organisation. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mary_Sophia_Allen&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130410030459/http://www.hastingspress.co.uk/history/maryallen.htm">"Mary Sophia Allen, 1878–1964"</a>. Hastings Press. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hastingspress.co.uk/history/maryallen.htm">the original</a> on 10 April 2013<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2 January</span> 2013</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Mary+Sophia+Allen%2C+1878%E2%80%931964&rft.pub=Hastings+Press&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hastingspress.co.uk%2Fhistory%2Fmaryallen.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMary+Sophia+Allen" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-:0-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:0_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDiane2018" class="citation book cs1">Diane, Atkinson (2018). <i>Rise up, women! : the remarkable lives of the suffragettes</i>. London: Bloomsbury. pp. 152, 182. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781408844045" title="Special:BookSources/9781408844045"><bdi>9781408844045</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/1016848621">1016848621</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Rise+up%2C+women%21+%3A+the+remarkable+lives+of+the+suffragettes&rft.place=London&rft.pages=152%2C+182&rft.pub=Bloomsbury&rft.date=2018&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F1016848621&rft.isbn=9781408844045&rft.aulast=Diane&rft.aufirst=Atkinson&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMary+Sophia+Allen" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ox-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-ox_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ox_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ox_3-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Vito, V. (2004-09-23). Allen, Mary Sophia (1878–1964), police officer. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 5 Dec. 2017, from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-39176">link</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWoolacoot1994" class="citation journal cs1">Woolacoot, Angela (April 1994). "<span class="cs1-kern-left"></span>'Khaki Fever' and its Control". <i>Journal of Contemporary History</i>. <b>29</b> (2). SAGE: 325–347. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1177%2F002200949402900206">10.1177/002200949402900206</a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/260893">260893</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:159692495">159692495</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Journal+of+Contemporary+History&rft.atitle=%27Khaki+Fever%27+and+its+Control&rft.volume=29&rft.issue=2&rft.pages=325-347&rft.date=1994-04&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A159692495%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F260893%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1177%2F002200949402900206&rft.aulast=Woolacoot&rft.aufirst=Angela&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMary+Sophia+Allen" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hastings Press biography states that Allen became Commandant when Dawson retired in 1919; it also states that Dawson died in 1921</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Pugh102-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Pugh102_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Pugh102_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Martin Pugh, "Hurrah For the Blackshirts!" Fascists and Fascism in Britain Between the War, Pimlico, 2006, p. 102</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Pugh, <i>"Hurrah For the Blackshirts!"</i>, p. 297</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1940/jun/27/womens-auxiliary-service-miss-mary-allen">"WOMEN'S AUXILIARY SERVICE (MISS MARY ALLEN) - House of Commons debate, 27 June 1940 (Hansard, volume 362, cc583-4)"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=WOMEN%27S+AUXILIARY+SERVICE+%28MISS+MARY+ALLEN%29+-+House+of+Commons+debate%2C+27+June+1940+%28Hansard%2C+volume+362%2C+cc583-4%29&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.parliament.uk%2Fhistoric-hansard%2Fcommons%2F1940%2Fjun%2F27%2Fwomens-auxiliary-service-miss-mary-allen&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMary+Sophia+Allen" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Pugh, <i>"Hurrah For the Blackshirts!"</i>, p. 305</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Pugh, <i>"Hurrah For the Blackshirts!"</i>, p. 306</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-McPherson_&_McPherson-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-McPherson_&_McPherson_11-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMcPhersonMcPherson,_Susan2011" class="citation book cs1">McPherson, Angela; McPherson, Susan (2011). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120113154415/http://www.oldsuffragette.co.uk/"><i>Mosley's Old Suffragette – A Biography of Norah Elam</i></a>. 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title="Shetland Women's Suffrage Society">Shetland Women's Suffrage Society</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stornoway_Women%27s_Suffrage_Society" title="Stornoway Women's Suffrage Society">Stornoway Women's Suffrage Society</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Suffragists" title="United Suffragists">United Suffragists</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Freedom_League" title="Women's Freedom League">Women's Freedom League</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Social_and_Political_Union" title="Women's Social and Political Union">Women's Social and Political Union</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Workers%27_Suffrage_Federation" class="mw-redirect" title="Workers' Suffrage Federation">Workers' Suffrage Federation</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Campaigners</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/National_Union_of_Women%27s_Suffrage_Societies" title="National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies"> Suffragists</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wilhelmina_Hay_Abbott" title="Wilhelmina Hay Abbott">Wilhelmina Hay Abbott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jane_Arthur" title="Jane Arthur">Jane Arthur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Anne_Baikie" title="Mary Anne Baikie">Mary Anne Baikie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Bell_(politician)" title="Mary Bell (politician)">Mary Bell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Agnes_Brown_(suffragist)" title="Agnes Brown (suffragist)">Nannie Brown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Burton" title="Mary Burton">Mary Burton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Caird" title="Edward Caird">Edward Caird</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jane_Clapperton" title="Jane Clapperton">Jane Clapperton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jessie_Craigen" title="Jessie Craigen">Jessie Craigen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muriel_Craigie" title="Muriel Craigie">Muriel Craigie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Crudelius" title="Mary Crudelius">Mary Crudelius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Davidson_(suffragist)" title="Margaret Davidson (suffragist)">Margaret C. Davidson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_McAusland_Denny" title="John McAusland Denny">John McAusland Denny</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helen_Fraser_(feminist)" title="Helen Fraser (feminist)">Helen Fraser</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Finlayson_Gauld" title="Elizabeth Finlayson Gauld">Elizabeth Finlayson Gauld</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edith_Hacon" title="Edith Hacon">Edith Hacon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_H._J._Henderson" title="Mary H. J. Henderson">Mary Henderson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elsie_Inglis" title="Elsie Inglis">Elsie Inglis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Irwin_(trade_unionist)" title="Margaret Irwin (trade unionist)">Margaret Irwin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christina_Jamieson" title="Christina Jamieson">Christina Jamieson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jessie_Keppie" title="Jessie Keppie">Jessie Keppie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harriet_Leisk" title="Harriet Leisk">Harriet Leisk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anna_Lindsay_(activist)" title="Anna Lindsay (activist)">Anna Lindsay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Martin_Lindsay" title="Thomas Martin Lindsay">Thomas Martin Lindsay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louisa_Lumsden" title="Louisa Lumsden">Louisa Lumsden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ann_Macbeth" title="Ann Macbeth">Ann Macbeth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louisa_Macdonald" title="Louisa Macdonald">Louisa Macdonald</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chrystal_Macmillan" title="Chrystal Macmillan">Chrystal MacMillan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alice_McLaren" title="Alice McLaren">Alice McLaren</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sarah_Mair" title="Sarah Mair">Sarah Mair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lavinia_Malcolm" title="Lavinia Malcolm">Lavinia Malcolm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flora_Masson" title="Flora Masson">Flora Masson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lilly_Maxwell" title="Lilly Maxwell">Lilly Maxwell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isabella_Fyvie_Mayo" title="Isabella Fyvie Mayo">Isabella Fyvie Mayo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frances_Melville" title="Frances Melville">Frances Melville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Graham_Moffat" title="Graham Moffat">Graham Moffat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Murdoch_(Hull)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mary Murdoch (Hull)">Mary Murdoch (Hull)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eunice_Murray" title="Eunice Murray">Eunice Murray</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frances_Murray_(suffragist)" title="Frances Murray (suffragist)">Frances Murray</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sylvia_Murray" title="Sylvia Murray">Sylvia Murray</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Mylne" title="Margaret Mylne">Margaret Mylne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jessie_Newbery" title="Jessie Newbery">Jessie Newbery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grace_Paterson" title="Grace Paterson">Grace Paterson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Pease_Nichol" title="Elizabeth Pease Nichol">Elizabeth Pease Nichol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Margaret_Pace" title="Elizabeth Margaret Pace">Elizabeth Margaret Pace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emily_Rosaline_Orme" title="Emily Rosaline Orme">Emily Rosaline Orme</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jane_Rae" title="Jane Rae">Jane Rae</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marion_Kirkland_Reid" title="Marion Kirkland Reid">Marion Kirkland Reid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jessie_Saxby" title="Jessie Saxby">Jessie Saxby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frances_Simson" title="Frances Simson">Frances Simson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Anderson_Snodgrass" title="Mary Anderson Snodgrass">Mary Anderson Snodgrass</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jessie_M._Soga" title="Jessie M. Soga">Jessie M. Soga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Somerville" title="Mary Somerville">Mary Somerville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catherine_Helen_Spence" title="Catherine Helen Spence">Catherine Helen Spence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flora_Stevenson" title="Flora Stevenson">Flora Stevenson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louisa_Stevenson" title="Louisa Stevenson">Louisa Stevenson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Carmichael_Stopes" title="Charlotte Carmichael Stopes">Charlotte Carmichael Stopes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Annie_S._Swan" title="Annie S. Swan">Annie S. Swan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jane_Taylour" title="Jane Taylour">Jane Taylour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muriel_Thompson" title="Muriel Thompson">Muriel Thompson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isabella_Tod" title="Isabella Tod">Isabella Tod</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eliza_Wigham" title="Eliza Wigham">Eliza Wigham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jane_Wigham" title="Jane Wigham">Jane Wigham</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Social_and_Political_Union" title="Women's Social and Political Union"> Suffragettes</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Janie_Allan" title="Janie Allan">Janie Allan</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Mary Sophia Allen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helen_Archdale" title="Helen Archdale">Helen Archdale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Janet_Barrowman" title="Janet Barrowman">Janet Barrowman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edith_Marian_Begbie" title="Edith Marian Begbie">Edith Marian Begbie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catherine_Hogg_Blair" title="Catherine Hogg Blair">Catherine Hogg Blair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jane_Esdon_Brailsford" title="Jane Esdon Brailsford">Jane Esdon Brailsford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lucy_Burns" title="Lucy Burns">Lucy Burns</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isabella_Carrie" title="Isabella Carrie">Isabella Carrie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dorothea_Chalmers_Smith" title="Dorothea Chalmers Smith">Dorothea Chalmers Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lila_Clunas" title="Lila Clunas">Lila Clunas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catherine_Corbett" title="Catherine Corbett">Catherine Corbett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Annie_Walker_Craig" title="Annie Walker Craig">Annie Walker Craig</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helen_Crawfurd" title="Helen Crawfurd">Helen Crawfurd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Agnes_Dollan" title="Agnes Dollan">Agnes Dollan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marion_Wallace_Dunlop" title="Marion Wallace Dunlop">Marion Wallace Dunlop</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flora_Drummond" title="Flora Drummond">Flora Drummond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louise_Eates" title="Louise Eates">Louise Eates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maude_Edwards" title="Maude Edwards">Maude Edwards</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Milne_Farquharson" title="Margaret Milne Farquharson">Margaret Milne Farquharson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ellison_Scotland_Gibb" title="Ellison Scotland Gibb">Ellison Scotland Gibb</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Skirving_Gibb" title="Margaret Skirving Gibb">Margaret Skirving Gibb</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marion_Gilchrist_(doctor)" title="Marion Gilchrist (doctor)">Marion Gilchrist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frances_Gordon" title="Frances Gordon">Frances Graves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Pollock_Grant" title="Mary Pollock Grant">Mary Pollock Grant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laura_Grey" class="mw-redirect" title="Laura Grey">Laura Grey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marion_Grieve" title="Marion Grieve">Marion Grieve</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Florence_Haig" title="Florence Haig">Florence Haig</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edith_Hudson" title="Edith Hudson">Edith Hudson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Agnes_Husband" title="Agnes Husband">Agnes Husband</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maud_Joachim" title="Maud Joachim">Maud Joachim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mabel_Jones" title="Mabel Jones">Mabel Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alice_Stewart_Ker" title="Alice Stewart Ker">Alice Stewart Ker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isabella_Leitch" title="Isabella Leitch">Isabella Leitch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Macarthur" title="Mary Macarthur">Mary Macarthur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Agnes_Syme_Macdonald" title="Agnes Syme Macdonald">Agnes Syme Macdonald</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Florence_Macfarlane" title="Florence Macfarlane">Florence Macfarlane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Macfarlane" title="Margaret Macfarlane">Margaret Macfarlane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Janet_McCallum_(suffragette)" title="Janet McCallum (suffragette)">Jenny McCallum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Priscilla_Bright_McLaren" title="Priscilla Bright McLaren">Priscilla Bright McLaren</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frances_McPhun" title="Frances McPhun">Frances McPhun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_McPhun" title="Margaret McPhun">Margaret McPhun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Maloney" class="mw-redirect" title="Mary Maloney">Mary Maloney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jessie_C._Methven" title="Jessie C. Methven">Jessie C. Methven</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maggie_Moffat" title="Maggie Moffat">Maggie Moffat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ethel_Moorhead" title="Ethel Moorhead">Ethel Moorhead</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anna_Munro" title="Anna Munro">Anna Munro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flora_Murray" title="Flora Murray">Flora Murray</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helen_Ogston" title="Helen Ogston">Helen Ogston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adela_Pankhurst" title="Adela Pankhurst">Adela Pankhurst</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frances_Parker" title="Frances Parker">Frances Parker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isabella_Bream_Pearce" title="Isabella Bream Pearce">Isabella Bream Pearce</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caroline_Phillips_(journalist)" title="Caroline Phillips (journalist)">Caroline Phillips</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Phillips_(suffragette)" title="Mary Phillips (suffragette)">Mary Phillips</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Annot_Robinson" title="Annot Robinson">Annot Robinson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amy_Sanderson_(suffragette)" class="mw-redirect" title="Amy Sanderson (suffragette)"> Amy Sanderson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arabella_Scott" title="Arabella Scott">Arabella Scott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muriel_Scott" title="Muriel Scott">Muriel Scott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maud_Arncliffe_Sennett" title="Maud Arncliffe Sennett">Maud Arncliffe Sennett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Skinnider" title="Margaret Skinnider">Margaret Skinnider</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georgiana_Solomon" title="Georgiana Solomon">Georgiana Solomon</a> and her daughter <a href="/wiki/Daisy_Solomon" title="Daisy Solomon">Daisy Solomon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barbara_Steel" title="Barbara Steel">Barbara Steel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jessie_Stephen" title="Jessie Stephen">Jessie Stephen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_and_Agnes_Thomson" title="Elizabeth and Agnes Thomson">Elizabeth and Agnes Thomson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bessie_Watson" title="Bessie Watson">Bessie Watson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mona_Chalmers_Watson" title="Mona Chalmers Watson">Mona Chalmers Watson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helen_Wilkie" class="mw-redirect" title="Helen Wilkie">Helen Wilkie</a> or <a href="/wiki/Annot_Robinson" title="Annot Robinson">Annot Robinson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henria_Leech_Williams" title="Henria Leech Williams">Henria Leech Williams</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Others</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rachel_Scott_(women%27s_education_reformer)" title="Rachel Scott (women's education reformer)">Rachel Cook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helen_Cruickshank" title="Helen Cruickshank">Helen Cruickshank</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Neill_Fraser" title="Margaret Neill Fraser">Margaret Neill Fraser</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ishbel_Hamilton-Gordon,_Marchioness_of_Aberdeen_and_Temair" title="Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair">Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frances_Ivens" title="Frances Ivens">Frances Ivens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jennie_Lee,_Baroness_Lee_of_Asheridge" title="Jennie Lee, Baroness Lee of Asheridge">Jennie Lee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Agnes_McLaren" title="Agnes McLaren">Agnes McLaren</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helen_Matthews" title="Helen Matthews">Helen Matthews</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Anti-suffrage activists</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lady_Griselda_Cheape" title="Lady Griselda Cheape">Lady Griselda Cheape</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Violet_Graham,_Duchess_of_Montrose" title="Violet Graham, Duchess of Montrose">Violet Graham, Duchess of Montrose</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Historians and <br />writers</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Leah_Leneman" title="Leah Leneman">Leah Leneman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elspeth_King" title="Elspeth King">Elspeth King</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diane_Atkinson" title="Diane Atkinson">Diane Atkinson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sarah_Pedersen" title="Sarah Pedersen">Sarah Pedersen</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Art, culture and<br />commemoration</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Holloway_Jingles" title="Holloway Jingles">Holloway Jingles</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hunger_Strike_Medal" title="Hunger Strike Medal">Hunger Strike Medal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Suffrage_Oak" title="The Suffrage Oak">The Suffrage Oak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Suffragette_Handkerchief" title="The Suffragette Handkerchief">The Suffragette Handkerchief</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WSPU_Holloway_Prisoners_Banner" title="WSPU Holloway Prisoners Banner">WSPU Holloway Prisoners Banner</a></li> <li>War Song <i>Justice for Ever</i></li> <li><i>Scotland's Suffragette Trumps</i> cards and <i>Scotland's Suffrage History Education Packs</i>, produced by <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Protests_and_Suffragettes" title="Wikipedia:GLAM/Protests and Suffragettes">Protests and Suffragettes</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sources">Sources</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mary_Sophia_Allen&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Allen, Mary S. (1925) <i>The Pioneer Policewoman</i>, London: Chatto & Windus</li> <li>Allen, Mary S. and Heyneman, Julie H. (1934) <i>A Woman at the Cross Roads</i>, London: Unicorn Press</li> <li>Allen, Mary S. (1936) <i>Lady in Blue</i>, London: Stanley Paul</li> <li>National Archives, PRO HO144/21933</li> <li>Boyd, Nina (2013), <i>From Suffragette to Fascist: The Many Lives of Mary Sophia Allen</i>, Stroud: The History Press</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mary_Sophia_Allen&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person.php?LinkID=mp58838">Portraits of Mary Sophia Allen</a> at the <a href="/wiki/National_Portrait_Gallery,_London" title="National Portrait Gallery, London">National Portrait Gallery, London</a> <span class="mw-valign-text-top noprint" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6780744#P1816" title="Edit 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href="/wiki/English_Mistery" title="English Mistery">English Mistery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/English_National_Association" title="English National Association">English National Association</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Imperial_Fascist_League" title="Imperial Fascist League">Imperial Fascist League</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Link_(UK_organization)" title="The Link (UK organization)">The Link</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Militant_Christian_Patriots" title="Militant Christian Patriots">Militant Christian Patriots</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Fascisti" title="National Fascisti">National Fascisti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Party_(UK,_1917)" title="National Party (UK, 1917)">National Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Socialist_League" title="National Socialist League">National Socialist League</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nordic_League" title="Nordic League">Nordic League</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Right_Club" title="Right Club">Right Club</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Defunct<br />post-1945 groups</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/British_Democratic_Party_(1979)" title="British Democratic Party (1979)">British Democratic Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_Empire_Party" title="British Empire Party">British Empire Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_Freedom_Party" title="British Freedom Party">British Freedom Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_People%27s_Party_(2005)" title="British People's Party (2005)">British People's Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_League_of_Ex-Servicemen_and_Women" title="British League of Ex-Servicemen and Women">British League of Ex-Servicemen and Women</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_League_of_Rights" title="British League of Rights">British League of Rights</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_National_Party_(1960)" title="British National Party (1960)">British National Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Column_88" title="Column 88">Column 88</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Democratic_Alliance" title="Conservative Democratic Alliance">Conservative Democratic Alliance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constitutional_Movement" title="Constitutional Movement">Constitutional Movement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/England_First_Party" title="England First Party">England First Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/European_Liberation_Front" title="European Liberation Front">European Liberation Front</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flag_Group" title="Flag Group">Flag Group</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/For_Britain_Movement" title="For Britain Movement">For Britain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Football_Lads_Alliance" title="Football Lads Alliance">Football Lads Alliance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Britain_Movement" title="Greater Britain Movement">Greater Britain Movement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_Third_Position" title="International Third Position">International Third Position</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/League_of_Empire_Loyalists" title="League of Empire Loyalists">League of Empire Loyalists</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liberty_GB" title="Liberty GB">Liberty GB</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Democratic_Party_(UK,_1966)" title="National Democratic Party (UK, 1966)">National Democratic Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Democrats_(United_Kingdom)" title="National Democrats (United Kingdom)">National Democrats</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Fellowship" title="National Fellowship">National Fellowship</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Independence_Party_(UK)" title="National Independence Party (UK)">National Independence Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Labour_Party_(UK,_1957)" title="National Labour Party (UK, 1957)">National Labour Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Party_(UK,_1976)" title="National Party (UK, 1976)">National Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Socialist_Action_Party" title="National Socialist Action Party">National Socialist Action Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Socialist_Movement_(UK,_1962)" title="National Socialist Movement (UK, 1962)">National Socialist Movement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Socialist_Movement_(United_Kingdom)" title="National Socialist Movement (United Kingdom)">National Socialist Movement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nationalist_Alliance" title="Nationalist Alliance">Nationalist Alliance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Britain_Party" title="New Britain Party">New Britain Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Nationalist_Party_(UK)" title="New Nationalist Party (UK)">New Nationalist Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_League_(British_neo-Nazi_organisation)" title="Northern League (British neo-Nazi organisation)">Northern League</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Official_National_Front" title="Official National Front">Official National Front</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patriotic_Party_(UK)" title="Patriotic Party (UK)">Patriotic Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Racial_Preservation_Society" title="Racial Preservation Society">Racial Preservation Society</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Revolutionary_Conservative_Caucus" title="Revolutionary Conservative Caucus">Revolutionary Conservative Caucus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spearhead_(magazine)" title="Spearhead (magazine)"><i>Spearhead</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Union_Movement" title="Union Movement">Union Movement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Country_Party_(United_Kingdom)" title="United Country Party (United Kingdom)">United Country Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/White_Defence_League" title="White Defence League">White Defence League</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/White_Nationalist_Party" title="White Nationalist Party">White Nationalist Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_Goals_Institute" title="Western Goals Institute">Western Goals Institute</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_British_far-right_groups_(1945%E2%80%93present)" title="List of British far-right groups (1945–present)">Active groups</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Blood_%26_Honour" title="Blood & Honour">Blood & Honour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Britain_First" title="Britain First">Britain First</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_Democratic_Party_(2013)" title="British Democratic Party (2013)">British Democratic Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_Movement" title="British Movement">British Movement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_National_Party" title="British National Party">British National Party</a> (<a href="/wiki/BNP_Youth" title="BNP Youth">BNP Youth</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_Council_of_Britain" title="Christian Council of Britain">Christian Council of Britain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Combat_18" title="Combat 18">Combat 18</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/English_Defence_League" title="English Defence League">English Defence League</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/English_Democrats" title="English Democrats">English Democrats</a> (some members)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Friends_of_Oswald_Mosley" title="Friends of Oswald Mosley">Friends of Oswald Mosley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homeland_Party_(Britain)" class="mw-redirect" title="Homeland Party (Britain)">Homeland Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/League_of_Saint_George" title="League of Saint George">League of Saint George</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Forum_(far-right_group)" title="London Forum (far-right group)">London Forum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Action_(UK)" title="National Action (UK)">National Action</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Front_(UK)" title="National Front (UK)">National Front</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Liberal_Party_(UK,_1999)" title="National Liberal Party (UK, 1999)">National Liberal Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_9th_Society" title="November 9th Society">November 9th Society</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patriotic_Alternative" title="Patriotic Alternative">Patriotic Alternative</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Protestant_Coalition" title="Protestant Coalition">Protestant Coalition</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Casuals_United" title="Casuals United">Pie and Mash squad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Order_of_Nine_Angles" title="Order of Nine Angles">Order of Nine Angles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Racial_Volunteer_Force" title="Racial Volunteer Force">Racial Volunteer Force</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atomwaffen_Division#United_Kingdom_(Sonnenkrieg_Division)" title="Atomwaffen Division">Sonnenkrieg Division</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stop_Islamisation_of_Europe" title="Stop Islamisation of Europe">Stop Islamisation of Europe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Traditional_Britain_Group" title="Traditional Britain Group">Traditional Britain Group</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Pre-1945 people</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Mary Sophia Allen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Amery" title="John Amery">John Amery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Hamilton_Beamish" title="Henry Hamilton Beamish">Henry Hamilton Beamish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Beckett_(politician)" title="John Beckett (politician)">John Beckett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hastings_Russell,_12th_Duke_of_Bedford" title="Hastings Russell, 12th Duke of Bedford">Hastings Russell, 12th Duke of Bedford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R._B._D._Blakeney" title="R. B. D. Blakeney">R. B. D. Blakeney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._K._Chesterton" title="A. K. Chesterton">A. K. Chesterton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Henry_Clarke" title="John Henry Clarke">John Henry Clarke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Haller_Cooper" title="Thomas Haller Cooper">Thomas Haller Cooper</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barry_Domvile" title="Barry Domvile">Barry Domvile</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Drummond_Wolff_(Basingstoke_MP)" title="Henry Drummond Wolff (Basingstoke MP)">Henry Drummond Wolff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Josslyn_Hay,_22nd_Earl_of_Erroll" title="Josslyn Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll">Josslyn Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Evans-Gordon" title="William Evans-Gordon">William Evans-Gordon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Forgan" title="Robert Forgan">Robert Forgan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rolf_Gardiner" title="Rolf Gardiner">Rolf Gardiner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patrick_Boyle,_8th_Earl_of_Glasgow" title="Patrick Boyle, 8th Earl of Glasgow">Patrick Boyle, 8th Earl of Glasgow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harold_Elsdale_Goad" title="Harold Elsdale Goad">Harold Elsdale Goad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reginald_Goodall" title="Reginald Goodall">Reginald Goodall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Gordon-Canning" title="Robert Gordon-Canning">Robert Gordon-Canning</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis_Greig" title="Louis Greig">Louis Greig</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neil_Francis_Hawkins" title="Neil Francis Hawkins">Neil Francis Hawkins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._F._C._Fuller" title="J. F. C. Fuller">J. F. C. Fuller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Joyce" title="William Joyce">William Joyce</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arnold_Leese" title="Arnold Leese">Arnold Leese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rotha_Lintorn-Orman" title="Rotha Lintorn-Orman">Rotha Lintorn-Orman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_McLardy" title="Frank McLardy">Frank McLardy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Unity_Mitford" title="Unity Mitford">Unity Mitford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diana_Mosley" title="Diana Mosley">Diana Mosley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lady_Cynthia_Mosley" title="Lady Cynthia Mosley">Cynthia Mosley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oswald_Mosley" title="Oswald Mosley">Oswald Mosley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gerard_Wallop,_9th_Earl_of_Portsmouth" title="Gerard Wallop, 9th Earl of Portsmouth">Gerard Wallop, 9th Earl of Portsmouth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Archibald_Maule_Ramsay" title="Archibald Maule Ramsay">Archibald Maule Ramsay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Mitford,_2nd_Baron_Redesdale" title="David Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale">David Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alliott_Verdon_Roe" title="Alliott Verdon Roe">Alliott Verdon Roe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Russell,_26th_Baron_de_Clifford" title="Edward Russell, 26th Baron de Clifford">Edward Russell, 26th Baron de Clifford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Raven_Thomson" title="Alexander Raven Thomson">Alexander Raven Thomson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Graham_Seton_Hutchison" title="Graham Seton Hutchison">Graham Seton Hutchison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herbert_Vivian" title="Herbert Vivian">Herbert Vivian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Warburton_(fascist)" title="John Warburton (fascist)">John Warburton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charlie_Watts_(fascist)" title="Charlie Watts (fascist)">Charlie Watts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nesta_Helen_Webster" title="Nesta Helen Webster">Nesta Helen Webster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Wellesley,_5th_Duke_of_Wellington" title="Arthur Wellesley, 5th Duke of Wellington">Arthur Wellesley, 5th Duke of Wellington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Williamson" title="Henry Williamson">Henry Williamson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ormonde_Winter" title="Ormonde Winter">Ormonde Winter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Yeats-Brown" title="Francis Yeats-Brown">Francis Yeats-Brown</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Post-1945 people</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ian_Anderson_(British_politician)" title="Ian Anderson (British politician)">Ian Anderson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Barnbrook" title="Richard Barnbrook">Richard Barnbrook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._F._X._Baron" title="A. F. X. Baron">A. F. X. Baron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Larratt_Battersby" title="James Larratt Battersby">James Larratt Battersby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Derek_Beackon" title="Derek Beackon">Derek Beackon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Bean_(politician)" title="John Bean (politician)">John Bean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jane_Birdwood,_Baroness_Birdwood" title="Jane Birdwood, Baroness Birdwood">Jane, Lady Birdwood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Bowden" title="Jonathan Bowden">Jonathan Bowden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Brons" title="Andrew Brons">Andrew Brons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kevin_Bryan" title="Kevin Bryan">Kevin Bryan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Buckby" title="Jack Buckby">Jack Buckby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eddy_Butler" title="Eddy Butler">Eddy Butler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._K._Chesterton" title="A. K. Chesterton">A. K. Chesterton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_Collett" title="Mark Collett">Mark Collett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1999_London_nail_bombings#David_Copeland" title="1999 London nail bombings">David Copeland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_Cotterill" title="Mark Cotterill">Mark Cotterill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicky_Crane" title="Nicky Crane">Nicky Crane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simon_Darby" title="Simon Darby">Simon Darby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sharon_Ebanks" title="Sharon Ebanks">Sharon Ebanks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Edmonds" title="Richard Edmonds">Richard Edmonds</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Dowson" title="Jim Dowson">Jim Dowson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Fountaine" title="Andrew Fountaine">Andrew Fountaine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jayda_Fransen" title="Jayda Fransen">Jayda Fransen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Golding" title="Paul Golding">Paul Golding</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nick_Griffin" title="Nick Griffin">Nick Griffin</a></li> 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