Helen Silcock (original) (raw)

Helen Fairhurst (née Silcock, 1865–1951) was initially a textile worker who became a trade unionist, suffragette and president of the Wigan and District Weavers, Winders, Reelers and Beamers Association, a virtually all-women trade union. She fought to introduce suffrage amendments to the TUC (Trades Union Congress) and campaigned for the NUWSS (National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies). She was part of a group of female campaigners known as "radical suffragists" which also included Sarah Reddish, Ada Nield Chew and Selina Cooper.