Godfrey was a suffragette and was arrested on three occasions.^[1] Her name appears on the WSPU Holloway Prisoners Banner.^[2]

In 1909, Winston Churchill (then the Member of Parliament for Dundee, was President of the Board of Trade) was speaking in Bolton in the run-up to the January 1910 General Election. Godfrey broke through strong timber barricades erected by police to throw a lump of iron wrapped in paper at Churchill's car.^[3] The paper bore the message "thrown by a woman of England as a protest against the Government’s treatment of political prisoners."^[4]

Godfrey was arrested and stood trial at Bolton Magistrates Court, pleading guilty. She was fined 40 shillings and refused to pay so was sentenced to a week in prison.^[5] She went on hunger strike during her incarceration and was awarded the Hunger Strike Medal.^[6] She was discharged from prison on medical grounds.^[7] At the time of her arrest, Godfrey had been working as a businesswoman.^[8]^[9]

Her date of birth and death are unknown.

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