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Eagle House is a Grade II* listed building in Batheaston, Somerset, near Bath. [2] Before World War I the house had extensive grounds.. When Emily Blathwayt and her husband Colonel Linley Blathwayt owned the house, its summerhouse was used, from 1909 to 1912, as a refuge for suffragettes who had been released from prison after hunger strikes.
The Blathwayt's home of Eagle House way the home of Linley, Emily and Mary Blathwayt who all actively supported the suffragette cause. Nearly all the prominient UK suffragettes stayed with them and these photos and dozens of trees were planted to commemorate their visits. Col. Linley Blathwayt took these pictures between 1908 and 1912. He died ...
Emily Marion Blathwayt (née Rose; 1852 – 1940) was a British suffragette [2] and mother of Mary Blathwayt.She and her husband, Linley, a retired Colonel from the Indian Army [3] lived at Eagle House in Somerset and established a welcome and garden summerhouse for women in the movement, that became known as the "Suffragette's Rest".
Mary Blathwayt was born 1 February 1879 in Worthing, Sussex, [2] the daughter of Colonel Linley Blathwayt, an army officer who had served in India, [3] and his wife, Emily, [2] who were first cousins. [4] Upon retiring from active service, Colonel Blathwayt and his family moved from India to Eagle House, Batheaston, on the outskirts of Bath. [1]
Caroline "Kitty" Kenney (1880–1952) was a sister of Annie Kenney, one of the most well-known British suffragettes to go on hunger strike, [1] for whom the Blathwayts planted commemorative trees [2] in their Eagle House garden in Batheaston, Somerset.
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