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Genie Sheppard (7 October 1863 – 10 April 1953) was a member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and militant suffragette Roll of Honour of Suffragette Prisoners 1905-1914 - The National Archives who in prison went on hunger strike where she was Force-feeding for which action she received the WSPU's Hunger Strike Medal. Hunger Strike Medal of Genie Sheppard - Unused ticket: The suffragette story in seven objects- BBC News 8 February 2018
She was born as Eugenie Sheppard in 1863 in Dudley in Worcestershire,
On being imprisoned in Holloway Prison Dr. Sheppard went on hunger strike and was Force-feeding.I. Miller, Chapter 2‘A Prostitution of the Profession’?: The Ethical Dilemma of Suffragette Force-Feeding, 1909–14 - A History of Force Feeding: Hunger Strikes, Prisons and Medical Ethics, 1909-1974, Palgrave Macmillan (2016) On her release Sheppard received the Hunger Strike Medal from the leadership of the WSPU. The medal is engraved with the words: "Fed by Force 1/3/12".
She was one of 68 women, among them Emily Davison, who added their signatures or initials to The Suffragette Handkerchief embroidered by prisoners in Holloway in March 1912, and kept until 1950 by Mary Ann Hilliard, and still available to view at the Priest House, West Hoathly.
By 1939 Dr. Sheppard was residing at Sevenoaks in Kent. She died in Tonbridge in Kent in 1953, leaving £20202 in her will.
target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 1901 England Census for Genie Sheppard - London, St Marylebone - Ancestry.com the youngest of four children born to Ellen née King (1829-) and Thomas Sheppard (1829-1904), an ironmonger and town councillor in Dudley.
target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 1871 England Census for Eugenie Sheppard: Worcestershire, Dudley - Ancestry.com By 1891 she was a student boarding at 8 Regent Terrace in Cambridge while studying medicine at the University of Cambridge.
target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 1891 England Census for Genie Sheppard - Cambridgeshire, St Andrew the Great - Ancestry.com The 1901 Census lists her and her older sister Amy Sheppard as Medical Practitioners lodging at 13 Upper Berkeley Street in Marylebone in London. She was arrested at a demonstration in the West End of London in 1912 during which she and other smashed windows with stones and hammers.
target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 for Eugenie Sheppard (1953) - Ancestry.com She never married.
target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 1939 England and Wales Register for Genie Sheppard: Kent, Sevenoaks RD - Ancestry.com
Categories: 1863 Births, 1953 Deaths, People From Dudley, British Feminists, English Suffragettes, British Women Activists, British Women's Rights Activists, Women's Suffrage In The United Kingdom, Women's Social And Political Union, Prisoners And Detainees Of England And Wales, Hunger Strike Medal Recipients, Force-feeding Victims
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