Grace Marcon

Grace Marcon also known as Frieda Graham (1889–1965) was a British suffragette who damaged five paintings in the National Gallery including Giovanni Bellini's The Agony in The Garden and Gentile Bellini's Portrait of a Mathematician.

Life Marcon was born in Erpingham in 1889. Her mother was named Sarah and her father was Canon Walter Marcon

In 1911 she was at home in Norfolk. Marcon would demonstrate in Norwich market for the suffragettes. She was imprisoned and released again when she was said to have cut off her hair whilst recovering from this hunger strike. Marcon was given a Hunger Strike Medal to commemorate her valour.

During the war Marcon worked as Red Cross masseuse and this appears to be how she first met Victor Scholey. Scholey was a press photographer and in 1923 Marcon worked her way across Canada to marry him in Quebec. By 1926 she was back alone in England with a son. She was still in touch with Emmeline Pankhurst and all women did not get the vote until 1928.

Death Marcon died in Oxford in 1965 and was buried in Edgefield.