Art Student

29

Unmarried

4 Mill's Buildings, Knightsbridge, London SW1X 7LJ

WSPU

Complies

Marjorie Hamilton was born in Derbyshire, the daughter of one of the partners in a local bank. After her father's death, Marjorie, her mother, and sister moved to Canada c. 1906. However by 1911 Marjorie had returned to England and, now an art student, was living in a boarding house in what was then a poor part of Knightsbridge. Although she had complied with the census, she was a member
of the WSPU and was commissioned by them to produce the attractive flyer that advertised the suffrage Coronation Procession of 17 June. She also produced front-page cartoons for the 9 June and 8 September 1911 issues of the WSPU’s paper, Votes for Women. Marjorie Hamilton continued to work as an artist but eventually returned to Canada where, having married in 1926, she remained for the rest of her life