Grace Burbridge

Grace Edith Burbridge (born 15 July 1887) was a British suffragette, burned whilst setting fire to a postbox.

Life and activism Burbridge was born in 1887 in Holloway, Middlesex, to William and Harriet Burbridge.

Burbridge became a shorthand typist. in 1913 after setting fire to a postbox at the junction of Camden Road and Sandhall Road, London, with liquid phosphorus and badly burning her own arm in the process.

Burbridge's case at the Marylebone Police Court, was defended by Arthur Marshall, husband of Kitty Marshall, who in leading her defence, emphasised Burbridge's role as the main earner for her father and sister, as a typist, and her suffering and pain. The magistrate noted the "peculiar circumstances" and she was bound over to keep the peace rather than imprisoned. The news of her action and injury spread as far as Australia, under the headline "The Biter Bitten" and in another report the magistrate was quoted as calling her "a poor deluded dupe."