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to allow limited female suffrage. He was not charged, but the publicity damaged his law firm for a time. He made himself available as legal adviser to WSPU prisoners, and, in June 1913, he represented the
Davison family at the inquest into Emily Davison's death after throwing herself under the king's
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a refuge where activists released from prison could recuperate. In 1911, Thomas
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