Lilian Ida Lenton was an English

England

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 dancer, suffragist

Suffragette

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, arson

Arson

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ist, and winner of a French

France

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 Red Cross medal for her service as an Orderly

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 in World War I

World War I

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'Lillie' Lenton was born in Leicester

Leicester

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 in 1891, the eldest daughter of a carpenter-joiner. On leaving school she trained to be a dancer, but, after hearing Emmeline Pankhurst

Emmeline Pankhurst

Emmeline Pankhurst was a British political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement which helped women win the right to vote...

 speak, she " ... made up my mind that night that as soon as I was twenty-one and my own boss ... I would volunteer".