Charlotte Blacklock

Charlotte Blacklock (1857–1931) was a British suffragette, given a Hunger Strike Medal for her going on a hunger strike in the cause of women's right to vote.

Life Blacklock was born in 1857 in Brighton, Sussex as the youngest child of Joseph Davidson (or Davison) Blacklock and Emma Walton Blacklock who ran two pharmacist shops at 32 Old Stiene and 109 Kings Road, Brighton She had a half brother, Arthur Woolsey Blacklock, (born 1840, who qualified as a Doctor in Aberdeen, later an astronomer) from her father's first marriage

In April the following year, Blacklock was writing about the Chelsea Art Stall for WSPU and visit by author Laurence Housman, co-founder of the Men's League for Women's Suffrage.

Blacklock was arrested on 11 March 1912, for breaking windows of Charles Lynton in Picadilly, London which were valued at £6 15shillings, a point disputed by her defence at the trial. Australian women had achieved the vote before the British women.

Blacklock was given a severe sentence of four months imprisonment. thumb Force feeding suffragettesShe signed an autograph book 1 May 1912, along with other prisoners at Birmingham Prison, auctioned in 2012.

Blacklock was awarded one of the one hundred Hunger Strike Medals 'for Valour' with the date 1 March 1912 on the bar, in recognition of her suffering for the cause by the WSPU.

Since 2011 her medal has been displayed in the Museum of Australian Democracy, with a portrait of her painted by her cousin Amy Sawyers.