Mary Pollock Grant

Mary Pollock Grant (2 December 1876 – August 1957), also known as Marion Pollock, was a Scottish suffragette, Liberal Party politician, missionary and policewoman.

Early life and work Grant was born in Partick, Glasgow, the eldest daughter of Dr Charles Martin Grant, the minister of St Mark's parish church in Dundee, and his wife, Eliza (Muirhead) Grant. She worked as a Church of Scotland missionary in Scotland

Women's rights In 1911, after returning to Scotland from India she worked for women's rights in Dundee

Throughout 1913 and 1914 she campaigned including speaking against the 'Cat and Mouse Act' and force-feeding of women to a public meeting at the Wallace Statue, in Aberdeen, wrote many letters to the press and was regularly removed from public meetings for being disruptive, Electorate 35,074

After the Lloyd George and H. H. Asquith wings of the Liberals re-united, she stood as Liberal candidate in Pontefract, where the Liberal candidate had come third in 1922. Once again it was a three-cornered contest and Grant was unable to avoid a squeeze on the Liberal vote; Election box begin title=General Election 1923: Pontefract another Labour/Unionist marginal where the Liberals were not expected to do that well. She again finished third.

Later life In the 1930s she became a Christian Scientist and worked as a healer for 20 years. She undertook civil defence work in London during the Second World War. In 1953 she was disabled by a stroke. She died in August 1957 in Tunbridge Wells.