Gladice Georgina Keevil was a British suffragette who served as head of the Midlands office of the Women's Social and Political Union between 1908 and 1910.
Gladice Keevil, 1910
Keevil being honoured in 1910
Bertha Wilmot Ryland was a militant suffragette and member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) who after slashing a painting in Birmingham Art Gallery in 1914 went on hunger strike in Winson Green Prison in Birmingham for which she was awarded the WSPU's Hunger Strike Medal.
The damage caused to Romney's Master Thornhill by Bertha Ryland in 1914
In 1912 Ryland was sentenced to six months in Winson Green Prison - seen here in the 1920s
In 1914 Ryland damaged the painting of John Bensley Thornhill known as 'Master Thornhill' by George Romney in Birmingham Art Gallery
Blue plaque at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery commemorating Ryland.