English suffragette Christabel Pankhurst was BOTD in 1880. Born in Manchester, the eldest daughter of suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst, she and her sisters Sylvia and Adela followed their mother into the campaign for women’s suffrage. In 1905, she interrupted a Liberal Party meeting, unfurling a banner reading “Votes for Women”, attracting international attention. She was briefly imprisoned, an action that inspired Emmeline to adopt more militant action in her campaign. On her release from prison, Christabel obtained a law degree from the University of Manchester, but was prevented from practising law due to her gender. She moved to London, where she co-founded and headed the Women’s Social and Political Union. Nicknamed “Queen of the Mob”, she orchestrated campaigns including direct physical action, open-air rallies and hunger strikes for imprisoned suffragettes. Arrested and imprisoned again in 1907 and 1909, she eventually fled to Paris to escape further arrest. While in exile, she continued directing the WSPU’s activities and edited the newsletter The Suffragette. She returned to England at the start of World War One, where she was again imprisoned. She went on a hunger strike and was eventually released, serving only 30 days of a three-year sentence. Christabel sided with Emmeline in suspending the WSPU’s campaigning and supporting the war effort, putting her in conflict with Sylvia’s pacifist beliefs. After unsuccessfully standing for Parliament in 1918, Christabel moved to the United States where, in a bizarre change of direction, she became an evangelist with the conservative Protestant sect the Plymouth Brethren. She never married or had children, remaining in Los Angeles for the rest of her life, dying in 1958 aged 77. Historians continue to debate whether she had lesbian relationships with fellow suffragettes Mary Blathwayt and Annie Kenney.