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Code	DS/UK/22523
Name	Mansell-Moulin; Edith (September 1858-5 March 1941); English suffragist and social activist
Variations of Name	Edith Ruth Thomas; Edith Ruth Mansell-Moullin
Dates	September 1858-5 March 1941
Gender	Female
Place of Birth/Origin	London, England (born)
Relationships	Married to Charles Mansell-Moulin, the surgeon who attended to Emily Davison after her collision with the hourse at the Derby.
Biography	Edith Mansell-Moullin was an English suffragist of Welsh heritage and social activist. Proud of her Welsh roots, she founded the Cymric Suffrage Union, which was dedicated to gaining women's suffrage for Welsh women. She was the co-organizer of the Welsh contingent of the 1911 procession of the Womens Suffrage Unions "Great Demonstration" held in 1911 in London. Part of the more militant British suffrage contingent, she was imprisoned for dissidence and refused to stop government agitation during World War I.

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