Constance Lytton - Death and Commemoration

Death and Commemoration

"Endowed with a celestial sense of humour, boundless sympathy, and rare musical talent, she devoted the later years of her life to the political enfranchisement of women and sacrificed her health and talents in helping to bring victory to this cause."

Epitaph inscribed on Lady Constance Lytton's mausoleum in Knebworth Park

Constance Lytton never fully recovered from her prison treatment, heart attack and strokes, and was nursed at Knebworth by her mother until her death in 1923, aged 54. She was buried with the purple, white and green Suffragette colours laid on her coffin.

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