Rosamond Massy

Rosamund Nora Massy (1870–1947) was an English suffragette and a "fierce woman". She was one of three women who organised the Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst Memorial, and was awarded the Hunger Strike Medal.

Family Rosamund Massy was born in London in 1870, the daughter of Sir Casey Knywett and Lady Knyvett. Her mother was also a prominent suffragette. her husband was supportive of her activism. They had one daughter. She was arrested and pleaded guilty to causing £2 damage.

Pankhurst's funeral and memorials Emmeline Pankhurst died on 14 June 1928, Massy was one of her pallbearers, alongside other former suffragettes Georgiana Brackenbury, Marie Brackenbury, Marion Wallace Dunlop, Harriet Kerr, Mildred Mansel, Kitty Marshall, Marie Naylor, Ada Wright and Barbara Wylie.

Kitty Marshall, Margaret, Lady Rhondda and Massy decided to arrange and fundraise for Pankhurst's memorials, with Massy serving as the fund's secretary. They raised money for her gravestone in Brompton Cemetery and a statue of her outside the House of Commons (which she had frequently been stopped from entering). They also raised money to buy the painting that had been made by fellow suffragette Georgina Brackenbury so that it could be given to the National Portrait Gallery.

Massy's prison badge and Hunger Strike Medal were placed in a casket in the plinth of Emmeline Pankhurst's statue in the Victoria Tower Gardens. It was unveiled by Stanley Baldwin in 1930.