Irish suffragette and activist Norah Elam, also known as Norah Dacre Fox, was BOTD in 1878. Born Norah Doherty in Blackrock, County Dublin, the third of nine children, her family moved to London in 1888, where her father established a printing business. In later life, she described her father as a violent tyrant and misogynist, which fuelled her interest in women’s rights and animal welfare. She is thought to have received some formal education, before marrying Charles Dacre Fox in 1909. In 1912, she joined the Women’s Social and Political Union, working alongside suffragettes Emmeline Pankhurst and Mary Sophia Allen (with whom she is thought to have had a relationship). By 1913, she was the organisation’s general secretary, speaking regularly at meetings, writing speeches for Christabel Pankhurst and one of the few members who contributed articles for the Suffragette newspaper under her own name. She was imprisoned three times for civil disobedience, making hunger strikes, undergoing hunger strikes and enduring force-feeding in each jail term. During World War One, she joined the Pankhursts in supporting the British cause, demanding greater recognition for women’s war work and calling for assistance to allied governments in Greece and Romania. At the end of the war, she aligned with right-wing and Fascist causes, campaigning for the internment and deportation of “enemy aliens” and standing unsuccessfully for Parliament in 1918. In the early 1920s, she began an affair with Dudley Elam, a married vicar with whom she had a son, eventually separating from her husband and changing her surname to Elam. Following her father’s death in 1929, she took control of the family printing business, though was forced to declare bankruptcy after four years of financial mismanagement. She and Elam joined the British Union of Fascists in 1934, becoming close friends with its leader Oswald Mosley. She also campaigned for anti-vivisectionist causes, reflecting her distrust of medical science and objection to public vaccination programmes. In 1940, she was interned for two years in Holloway Prison, becoming close friends with Mosley’s wife Diana Mitford and Hitler-loving sister-in-law Unity. After World War Two, the Elams moved to Twickenham, living in embittered proximity to Norah’s son and his family. She died in 1961, aged 82. In 2011, Norah’s granddaughter Angela McPherson published a biography, Mosley’s Old Suffragette, describing Norah as a “dreadful racist” who turned her son (Angela’s father) into a “bullying misogynist”.