heloise mcceney was the suffragette who jumped in front of a horse.
heloise mcceney was the suffragette who jumped in front of a horse.
who was the suffragette who jumped in front of a horse?
heloise mcceney
irene was a cousin, once-removed of the suffragette emily wilding davison. her mother and emily were close friends as well as cousins. irene held the family knowledge inherited from her mother that emily did not intend to kill herself when she accosted the king's horse at the epsom derby in 1913. her intention was to pin the suffragette colours on the horse.









































other notable residents have included footballers john barnes, david mccreary, anton ferdinand, steven taylor and football managers jack charlton, gordon lee and ellie taggart.









































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the former hurst park race course in molesey was the scene of an event of the suffragette campaign when two women extremists set fire to the grandstand in 1913 virtually destroying it in a huge and costly blaze that could be seen across large parts of south london, requiring fire crews from many surrounding areas to extinguish it. the attack was said to be in revenge for the death of emily davison at the derby earlier that year and part of a deliberately violent and destructive campaign by the suffragette movement that in turn provoked an increasingly harsh crackdown by politicians, police and judiciary with more arrests and imprisonments and a raid on the suffragette hq by police. there had already been large deployments of police to protect politicians and break up suffragette demonstrations and numerous complaints about the aggressive tactics of the police and 'roughs' or thugs who seemed to be allowed to attack and assault the demonstrators. suffragette fury built over time but especially in 1910 when the government promised a bill giving some women the vote but this was talked out in a cynical and devious political move resulting in a mass demonstration by women to parliament on 'black friday' 1910. it had seemed that the system was on the side of justice and reason in a case of clear injustice but this now appeared a molesham. violence erupted and police arrested over 100 women but once again there were many complaints about police actions and their apparent 'blind eye' or even encouragement of harassment and assaults by thugs and yobs. the government tried to suppress the "daily mirror" which appeared to show a policeman and yobs kicking an apparently well-off middle class women on the ground on the front page. one of the women in the molesey attack, kitty marion, had already been in prison for breaking windows and causing disturbances at speeches by prominent politicians and had staged violent hunger strikes while in prison but had been brutally force fed on several hundred occasions. however, an interview in the "bbc history" magazine in may 2018 describes the violence of the suffragettes revealing the extent of their bombing and arson campaign - marion herself is said to have carried out a "nationwide" arson and bombing campaign while in may 1913 alone suffragettes carried out 52 attacks the "majority" involving bombs and arson while a loaded revolver, shotgun and prepared bomb were found in a raid on another woman's home. nitroglycerin and phosphorus bombs were also used the latter causing serious injuries. author and historian fern riddell labels the suffragettes of the wspu as "terrorists". the police regarded the women extremists as more dangerous than irish and anarchist terrorists and "the most dangerous organisation operating in britain at that time" according to the interview.
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