Lillian Dove Willcox

Lillian Dove-Willcox (1875–1963) was a British suffragette who was a member of Emmeline Pankhurst's personal bodyguard.

Life Dove-Willcox was born in Bedminster, Bristol in 1875. Her husband died in 1908. She was living in Bristol and attended the West of England branch of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). The following year she was arrested at the House of Commons after trying to lobby on behalf of the Women's Social and Political Union on 29 June 1909.

Like the Blathwayts, Dove-Wilcox offered lodging to suffragettes (including the extreme Mary Richardson) at her cottage in the Wye valley. Richardson was devoted to Dove-Willcox and wrote the poem The Translation of the Love I Bear Lillian Dove. Dove-Wilcox took over from Annie Kenney as the leader of the WSPU branch in the West of England in 1911, She expressed her loyalty to the Pankhursts by becoming a member of Emmeline Pankhurst's personal bodyguard. When Emmeline was arrested in Glasgow on 9 March 1913. She managed to travel back south on the same train as Emmeline and her guards. Two days later she was arrested at the Houses of Parliament and sentenced to another month in prison. Willcox died in Ealing in 1963.