Agnes Lake

Agnes Caroline Lake (1887–1972) was a British suffragette who was the business manager of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU)’s newspaper The Suffragette.

Life Lake was born in 1887 in Harlow, Essex. She married Dr. William Henry Whatmough in 1910.

On 30 April 1913, Lake was arrested alongside Beatrice Sanders, Rachel Barrett, Harriet Kerr and Flora Drummond when police raided the WSPU headquarters. She was charged with conspiracy under the Malicious Damage to Property Act and was sentenced to 21 months imprisonment. In June 1913, she was transferred to Warwick Goal in Warwickshire, where she went on hunger strike and was force fed. She was so unwell by October 1913 that she was moved into a nursing home in Royal Leamington Spa under the "Cat and Mouse Act."

Lake was later dismissed from her role with the WSPU's newspaper, which Christabel Pankhurst said was "purely a business matter".

She died in 1972 in Wandsworth, London, aged 84.