Annie Williams, suffragette

Annie Williams (c. 1860–1943) was a British suffragette, organiser for the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), imprisoned twice and awarded a Hunger Strike Medal. She was involved in a same-sex partnership with fellow activist Lettice Floyd, but not allowed to write to her in prison.

Williams's sister Edith also joined the WSPU and later took over the Cornwall branch in 1913; Williams's mailing address was care of her sister at Glanafon, Devoran, Cornwall. with Lettice Floyd lasted until the latter's death Williams was then replaced by Laura Ainsworth and moved on to be WPSU organiser for Huddersfield and Halifax before in 1912 and 1913 becoming WSPU Wales organiser, based at 27 Charles Street, Cardiff.

In March 1912, with Lettice Floyd, Williams was one of the 200 or more WSPU members organised to be smashing windows, as Parliament was considering (and rejected) the Conciliation Bill (to give some women the vote), and was sentenced to one month in Holloway prison.

Williams and Lettice Floyd took part in the hunger strike and both were forcibly fed. and lasted from 1908 to the latter's death in 1934. In November 1908, Williams wrote from Cranlock, Newquay, to Lettice Floyd, who was then serving a sentence in Holloway Prison, London, but the letter was returned as the prison governor said she was "not entitled" to receive it.

At the start of World War One, when the suffragettes called off their activism campaign, Williams and Lettice Floyd moved from Cardiff to Berkswell, near Coventry, and their relationship continued. In 1920 they helped start the Women's Institute there. Williams was president of the institute 1926–30 and 1933–34. She was at Lettice Floyd's side when she died in hospital in Birmingham after surgery in 1934. Williams inherited from Lettice Floyd's will £3000 and annual income of £300. Williams died in 1943.