Millicent Browne

Browne was born in London, where her father Walter Browne was an actor and baritone singer. Her parents’ marriage ended around 1884 and her mother Ellen Phyllis Browne took her and her two sisters to live in York. Her mother was a descendant of William Wilberforce. Browne was educated at Castlegate College, York, then was a pupil-teacher at the Priory Street School. == Suffragist activism ==

Browne was a campaigner for the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and in 1907 was posted to the branch in Bristol, where she became a close friend of Annie Kenney. including in Derbyshire, Wiltshire, Whilst campaigning in Bristol, Browne met her future husband Reginald Charles Price. Price was a Bristol Universitystudent who helped to defend a group of suffragettes when they were protesting. His father was a well known Birmingham jeweller. On 4 July 1909 Browne planted not a tree but a holly bush. Linley Blathwayt took her picture and recorded the planting. Most of the trees were destroyed in the 1960s, but Browne's plaque is one of the few to have survived. Browne was a pacifist and Quaker, as well as a supporter of the campaign for women's enfranchisement, and left the WSPU in 1911 when their tactics became more militant and violent. == Later life ==

During World War I, Browne worked for the Friends War Victims Relief Committee to support Belgian war refugees. As her husband was a pacifist and Quaker like his wife, he was a conscientious objector. The couple later supported peace organisations. Browne wrote her autobiography in 1935 and copies are held in the archives in York and at the Women's Library in London. She died in 1975. ==References==