Leeds, England, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Died
4 September 1978(1978-09-04) (aged 105)
Colwyn Bay, Wales, United Kingdom
Nationality
British
Occupation(s)
Milliner and activist
Employer
Women's Social and Political Union
Known for
Vandalism at the Tower of London
Spouse
Henry Cohen
(m. 1900; died 1949)
[1]
Children
2
Leonora CohenOBE (née Throp; 15 June 1873 – 4 September 1978) was a British suffragette and trade unionist, and one of the first female magistrates. She was known as the "Tower Suffragette" after smashing a display case in the Tower of London and acted as a bodyguard for Emmeline Pankhurst. She lived to the age of 105 and contributed to the second wave of feminism in the 1970s.
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LeonoraCohen OBE (née Throp; 15 June 1873 – 4 September 1978) was a British suffragette and trade unionist, and one of the first female magistrates....
twentieth-century interwar period. He was father to Felix S. Cohen and LeonoraCohen Rosenfield. Cohen was born in Minsk, Imperial Russia (present-day Belarus)...
recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1961) June 15 – LeonoraCohen, British suffragette and trade unionist (d. 1978) June 28 – Alexis Carrel...
they all explode or are discovered while in transit. 1 February 1913: LeonoraCohen smashed the glass display of the Order of Merit in the Wakefield Tower...
September 3 – Karin Molander, Swedish actress (b. 1889) September 4 – LeonoraCohen, British suffragette and trade unionist (b. 1873) September 6 – Adolf...
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in many radical causes; co-founder of the Women's Franchise League LeonoraCohen (1873–1978) – militant British suffragette and trade unionist; bodyguard...
Leeds Art Gallery, to enable her to escape in a delivery van, driven by LeonoraCohen dressed as a baker's man while Lenton swapped places with Nora Duval...
struggle. She was seen wearing her Holloway brooch in a reunion with LeonoraCohen, on the cover of Radio Times. Brian Harrison recorded 2 oral history...
by Leonora O'Reilly, and when O'Reilly began teaching at the Manhattan Trade School for Girls in 1902, she recruited Cohen as her assistant. Cohen attended...
of safety in the 1950s. Visiting speakers included the suffragette, LeonoraCohen, who retired to Colwyn Bay and gave a talk in the town hall in Denbigh...
including the Fellowship's president Grace Roe and Edith Clayton Pepper, LeonoraCohen and Lilian Lenton. At the unveiling the Labour politician Edith Summerskill...
Margaret Clay RRC Principal Matron for Scotland, Ministry of Pensions LeonoraCohen JP Chairman of the Women's Sub-Committee of the Leeds Local Employment...
Leonora Piper (née Leonora Evelina Simonds; 27 June 1857 – 3 June 1950) was a famous American trance medium in the area of Spiritualism. Piper was the...
all electoral ballots. Ali was born to an Indo-Guyanese Muslim family in Leonora, a village in the West Coast Demerara region of Guyana. The child of two...
Pointer was born on May 18, 1924, in New York City. Her mother, Augusta Leonora (née Davis), was an artist and an illustrator, and her father, Kenneth...
Rothschild (1819–1884) │ │ see Rothschild banking family of Naples │ │ │ ├──> Leonora von Rothschild (1837–1911) │ │ ∞ 1857 : Alphonse James de Rothschild (1827–1905)...
many doubted but would not or could not challenge. Hayes renamed the ship Leonora (the name of his favourite daughter), painting her white in an effort to...
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Rothschild banking family of Naples. They had the following children: Leonora (1837–1911) Evelina (1839–1866) Nathan Mayer (1840–1915) Alfred Charles...
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