Female

English, Female, Witch

Jane Wenham

Last person to be condemned to death for witchcraft in an English court, when she was found guilty at Hertford in 1712.

English, Female, Suffragette

Evelyn Manesta

Alias used by one of the three suffragettes arrested for damaging with hammers the glass of thirteen pictures in Manchester Art Gallery on 3 April 1913.

Female, Scottish, Witch

Geillis Duncan, witch

Young Scottish maidservant suspected of witchcraft by her employer in November 1590. After being tortured, the initial testimony she gave led to the start of the North Berwick witch trials.

English, Female, Racing driver

Dorothy Levitt

First British woman racing driver and a women’s world land speed record holder. In 1905 she also established the record for the longest drive by a lady driver when she drove a De Dion-Bouton from London to Liverpool and back over two days.

English, Female, Witch

Alice Nutter

One of the 11 men and women found guilty of causing harm by witchcraft in the Pendle witch trials of 1612, unique among the accused in being a respectable wealthy widow.

English, Female, Horse racing

Norah Wilmot

First British woman racehorse trainer to officially train a winning horse. Her historic win came with her filly Pat, at Brighton in August 1966, just one day after she became one of the first two women to be granted a training licence by the Jockey Club.

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