Louisa Entwistle

Louisa Entwistle (born 1887) was an English suffragette.

Biography Entwistle was born in 1887 in Blackburn, Lancashire, England. She worked as a factory hand in a mill.

When she was 20, Entwistle travelled to London to a demonstration outside Parliament which was organised by the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU). She was among a group of sixty protestors for women's suffrage who raided the House of Commons and were arrested. Entwistle was tried on 14 February 1907 at Westminster Police Court in London. The Lancashire Evening Post reported that during her trial Entwistle said to the magistrate that she was:

Entwistle was imprisoned for a week in HM Holloway Prison.

In 2018, an artwork was created featuring Entwistle on hoardings opposite Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery for International Women's Day. In 2020, a street on a housing estate in Blackburn was named in Entwistle's honour.