Margaret Pollock McPhun (1876–1960) was a Scottish suffragette from

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who served two months in Holloway Prison in

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and composed a poem about imprisoned activist

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McPhun was born on 8 July 1876. Her father was a Glasgow

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and timber merchant. She and her sister Frances McPhun joined the

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(WSPU) in 1909, and she was the Scottish WSPU press secretary from 1912-1914. They were amongst dozens jailed for smashing government office windows in March 1912. The sisters had both attended the

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, where Margaret had studied psychology and obtained an MA in 1897. Helen Crawfurd, Janet Barrowman, Margaret McPhun, Mrs A

The sisters used the name "Campbell" to hide their background when they were arrested. When they were released from