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===Funeral===
[[File:Britain Before the First World War Q81834.jpg|thumb|alt=A procession of Suffragettes, dressed in white and bearing wreaths and a banner reading "Fight on and God will give the victory" during the funeral procession of Emily Davison in Morpeth, Northumberland, 13 June 1913. Crowds line the street to watch.|Part of Davison's funeral procession in Morpeth, Northumberland]]
On 14 June 1913 Davison's body was transported from Epsom to London; her coffin was inscribed "Fight on. God will give the victory."{{sfn|"The Funeral of Miss Davison", ''The Times''}} Five thousand women formed a procession, followed by hundreds of male supporters, that took the body between [[London Victoria station|Victoria]] and [[Kings Cross, London|Kings Cross]] stations; the procession stopped at [[St George's, Bloomsbury]] for a brief service conducted by [[Claude Hinscliff]] and C. Baumgarten, both part of the [[Church League for Women's Suffrage]].<ref name="Crawford2003">{{cite book|author=Elizabeth Crawford|title=The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866-1928|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ygXwlK_mj50C&pg=PT475|date=2 September 2003|publisher=Routledge|isbn=1-135-43401-8|pages=475–}}</ref>{{sfn|"Miss Davison's Funeral", ''The Manchester Guardian''}} The women marched in ranks wearing the suffragette colours of white and purple, which ''The Manchester Guardian'' described as having "something of the deliberate brilliance of a military funeral";{{sfn|"Miss Davison's Funeral", ''The Manchester Guardian''}} 50,000 people lined the route, and [[June Purvis]], Davison's biographer, describes the event as "the last of the great suffragette spectacles".{{sfn|Purvis|2013a|p=358}}{{sfn|Sleight|1988|p=84}} Emmeline Pankhurst planned to be part of the procession, but she was arrested on the morning, ostensibly to be returned to prison under the [[Prisoners (Temporary Discharge for Ill Health) Act 1913|"Cat and Mouse" Act (1913)]].{{sfn|"The Suffragist Outrage at the Derby", ''The Times''}}{{sfn|"Miss Davison's Funeral", ''The Manchester Guardian''}}{{efn|The Cat and Mouse Act—officially the Prisoners (Temporary Discharge for Ill Health) Act 1913—was introduced by the Liberal government to counter the suffragette tactic of hunger strikes. The act allowed the prisoners to be released on licence as soon as the hunger strike affected their health, then to be re-arrested when they had recovered to finish their prison sentences.{{sfn|"1913 Cat and Mouse Act"}}}}
The coffin was taken by train to [[Newcastle upon Tyne]] with a suffragette guard of honour for the journey; crowds met the train at its scheduled stops. The coffin remained overnight at the city's [[Newcastle railway station|central station]] before being taken to Morpeth. A procession of about a hundred suffragettes accompanied the coffin from the station to the St. Mary the Virgin church; it was watched by thousands. Only a few of the suffragettes entered the churchyard, as the service and internment were private.{{sfn|"Miss Davison's Funeral", ''The Manchester Guardian''}}{{sfn|"Miss Davison's Funeral", ''Votes for Women''}} Her gravestone bears the WSPU slogan "Deeds not words".{{sfn|Sleight|1988|p=100}}
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