Votes for Women around the UK

Helena Swanwick worked as a journalist for the Manchester Guardian. She was a pacifist, an internationalist, and a member of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) and the Labour Party. From 1909-1912 Helena edited NUWSS newspaper The Common Cause.

Agnes Maude Royden (known as Maude) was involved with settlement work in Liverpool, and then later in London. She was a member of the NUWSS, and edited the union's newspaper, Common Cause. As a pacifist, Maude left the NUWSS over their support for the First World War. She joined the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and the Church League for Women's Suffrage. She later campaigned for the ordination of women.

Eva McLaren was a leading member of the Women's Liberal Federation, and a poor law guardian in Bradford. 

Edith How-Martyn was a suffragette and birth control campaigner from Middlesex (now part of north west London). She was a co-founder of the Women's Freedom League (WLF). In 1926, she founded the Suffragette Fellowship to document and promote the history of the militant suffrage campaign.

Born in Lancashire, Priscilla Bright McLaren was the founder of the Edinburgh Women's Suffrage Society, in 1867, and an executive member of the NUWSS. She was an anti-slavery campaigner, and helped to link the anti-slavery cause with the movement for women's suffrage.

Elsie Inglis was a Scottish doctor and suffragist. She was secretary of the Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage, and helped to form the Scottish Federation of Women's Suffrage Societies. 

Margaret Haig Thomas (known as Mrs Humphrey Mackworth during the suffrage years) was secretary of the Newport branch of the WSPU. From 1911 she was president of the Cymric Suffrage Union, and later vice-president of the London Society for Women’s Suffrage. On the death of her father in 1918, Margaret succeeded his title as Viscountess Rhondda. She launched Time and Tide magazine in 1920 and the Six Point Group, a gender equality campaigning group, the following year.

Ireland was part of Britain until 1922, and women from both the north and south of Ireland signed the 1866 women’s suffrage petition. The Irish Women's Suffrage Society (IWSS), founded by Louie Bennet, had a policy of constitutional, non-militant, non-party campaigning (like Millicent Fawcett's NUWSS), while the Irish Women's Franchise League (IWFL) had more in common with the militant tactics preferred by the WSPU. However, the issue of Irish nationalism and home rule sparked tensions between English and Irish suffragists, with WSPU leaders like Christabel Pankhurst insisting: "No votes for women, no Home Rule." 

Frances Power Cobbe was an Irish social reformer, anti-vivisectionist, and a campaigner for women's rights. Although she died in 1904, Frances was involved in earlier campaigns including John Stuart Mill's 1866 petition for women's suffrage, and the Married Women's Property Act.

Irish aristocrat and poet Eva Gore-Booth was in a lesbian relationship with Manchester-based suffragist and trade unionist Esther Roper. She was also the the younger sister of Constance Gore-Booth, later known as the Countess Markievicz, who in turn was the first woman elected to the British House of Commons. However, as an Irish Nationalist, she did not take her seat.