ERO Presents: Out of Essex

Join speaker Dr Emelyne Godfrey as she talks about artist and resident of Ongar, Theydon Bois and Sible Hedingham, Emily Katherine (Kitty) Willoughby Marshall who was also Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst’s personal bodyguard.

In fact, both Kitty and her husband Arthur were key players in the Women’s Social and Political Union. Arthur Marshall acted as the lawyer to the suffragettes while Kitty raised funds and fought the forces of the law.