Patricia Woodlock  Patricia Woodlock (1873 – "alive" "in" 1930), British artist and suffragette who was imprisoned seven times, including serving the longest suffragette prison sentence in 1908 (solitary confinement for three months); she was awarded a Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) Hunger Strike Medal 'f"or Valour"'. Woodlock's harsh sentence caused outrage among supporters and inspired others to join the protests, her release was celebrated in Liverpool and London and drawn as a dreadnaught warship, on the cover of the WSPU "Votes for Women" newsletter. Born Mary Winifred Patricia Woodlock (known as Patricia) in or near 1873 to an Irish socialist father David Woodlock, originally from Tipperary, who was also an artist. and mother Marion. Woodlock had a sister Evangeline, born when she was ten joining a brother Charles Stuart, eight years Patricia's junior. Charles became a Jesuit priest. Patricia Woodlock was educated at Mount Vernon Convent. Woodlock became a member of the Independent Labour Party. Her family home was 46 Nicander Road, Sefton Park, then at the time of her arrest in 1907 she lived at 2 South John Street and later at 27 South Humber Street, Liverpool. Woodlock was a founder member with Alice Morrissey, of the first Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) branch in Liverpool, from 1906  and became a Liverpool WSPU organiser in 1909. Woodlock was also associated with a Catholic Women's Suffrage Society, and with local women's church suffrage groups were able to cross the religious divide of the time, although the local press prioritised news on women engaging in violent sectarian protests. Woodlock held meetings for women of all classes and organised street meetings for working women near factories where large numbers of women worked, like Cope's tobacco and Crawford's biscuits. Annie Kenney a working-class suffragette leader came to speak as well. Open-air meetings after working hours were held more than once a week eventually, and one event in 1908 had over 1,000 attending. Some spontaneous support from the working-class men arose, for example, when Woodlock and others were being arrested, protesting at Lloyd-George's event in Sun Hall, Liverpool, an 'obvious foreigner' according to "Liverpool Weekly Mercury", Mr Salinger was in court, arrested for intervening with the police on behalf of the women, but he was then released.