Editing Emily Davison (section)

===Early life and education===
[[File:Emily Davison, 1908.jpg|thumb|upright|Davison in 1908]]
Emily Wilding Davison was born at Roxburgh House, Greenwich, in south-east London on 11 October 1872. Her parents were Charles Davison, a retired merchant, and Margaret ''{{nee}}'' Caisley, both of [[Morpeth, Northumberland]].{{sfn|San Vito|2008}} At the time of his marriage to Margaret in 1868, Charles was 45 and Margaret was 19.{{sfn|Sleight|1988|pp=22–23}} Emily was the third of four children born to the couple; her younger sister died of [[diphtheria]] in 1880 at the age of six.{{sfn|Howes|2013|loc=410–422}}{{sfn|Sleight|1988|pp=22–24}}{{sfn|Tanner|2013|p=156}} The marriage to Margaret was Charles's second; his first marriage produced nine children before the death of his wife in 1866.{{sfn|San Vito|2008}}
 
The family moved to [[Sawbridgeworth]], [[Hertfordshire]], while Davison was still a baby; until the age of 11 she was educated at home. When her parents moved the family back to London she went to a day school, then spent a year studying in [[Dunkirk]], France.{{sfn|Colmore|1988|pp=5, 9}} When she was 13 she attended [[Kensington Preparatory School|Kensington High School]] and later won a [[bursary]] to [[Royal Holloway, University of London|Royal Holloway College]] in 1891 to study literature. Her father died in early 1893 and she was forced to end her studies because her mother could not afford the fees of £20 a term.{{sfn|Sleight|1988|pp=26–27}}{{efn|£20 in 1892 equates to approximately £{{formatnum:{{Inflation|UK|20|1892|r=-2}}}} in {{Inflation/year|UK}} pounds, according to calculations based on [[Consumer Price Index (United Kingdom)|Consumer Price Index]] measure of inflation.{{inflation-fn|UK|df=yes}}}}
 
On leaving Holloway, Davison became a live-in [[governess]], and continued studying in the evenings.{{sfn|Colmore|1988|p=15}} She saved enough money to enrol at [[St Hugh's College, Oxford]], for one term to sit her [[Final examination|finals]];{{efn|At the time of Davison's studies, Holloway was not a constituent school of the [[University of London]] and could not award degrees, so her studies were for the qualification of the Oxford Honour School.{{sfn|Abrams|2003|p=161}}}} she achieved [[first-class honours]] in English, but could not graduate because degrees from Oxford were closed to women.{{sfn|Crawford|2003|p=159}} She worked briefly at a [[church school]] in [[Edgbaston]] between 1895 and 1896, but found it difficult and moved to Seabury, a [[private school]] in [[Worthing]], where she was more settled; she left the town in 1898 and became a private tutor and governess to a family in [[Northamptonshire]].{{sfn|Crawford|2003|p=159}}{{sfn|Tanner|2013|p=160}}{{sfn|Sleight|1988|pp=28–30}} In 1902 she began reading for a degree at the [[University of London]]; she graduated with [[third-class honours]] in 1908.{{sfn|Tanner|2013|p=161}}{{efn|Sources differ over the subject of her degree. Some state that she studied modern languages,{{sfn|San Vito|2008}}{{sfn|Tanner|2013|p=161}} others that she graduated in classics and mathematics.{{sfn|Gullickson|2008|p=464}}{{sfn|Purvis|2013a|p=354}}}}