Suffragette Arson Whitekirk, East Lothian, Scotland
Suffragette Arson at Whitekirk Church, just south of North Berwick, East Lothian, Scotland on Thursday, February 26, 1914. The Scotsman newspaper was indignant, writing: "Two bombs explode! By an outrage of the most dastardly nature, obviously the work of suffragettes: one of the historic churches of Scotland, the Parish Church of Whitekirk, in East Lothian, a splendid relic of the pre-Reformation days, has been completely gutted by fire, and many valuable articles have been destroyed." In June 1914, suffragette Janie Allan wrote to the chairman of the Prison Commission that Whitekirk had been attacked as a retaliation for the suffragette Ethel Moorhead having been force-fed at Calton Prison. Whitekirk was rebuilt and restored under the direction of Sir Robert Lorimer
