Louisa

Louisa Garret Anderson

Long-established committee member who resigned due to the socialist elements being encouraged by the East End branches.

(Picture from Wikipedia entry)

She is mentioned in the book Women and War: A Historical Encyclopedia from Antiquity to the Present, By Bernard A. Cook. In this book, it says that she co-founded the Women's Hospital Corps in 1914 to offer medical support during WW1. She was also arrested once after stones were thrown at 10 Downing Street, and imprisoned in 1912 for militancy (Access to History: Votes for Women by Dr Paula Bartley).

She was a doctor - the daughter of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson - and she signed Florence Nightingale's death certificate.