Agnes Lake was born in Harlow, Essex on November 2nd 1885 to Samuel Thomas Lake and Eliza, nee Webb. She married William Henry Whatmough in 1910. A militant suffragette, Agnes Lake managed the office of 'The Suffragette' and 'Votes for Women'. Arrested on the last day of April 1913 at the headquarters of the Women's Social and Political Union [WSPU] at Lincoln's Inn, she and six others were tried at the Old Bailey for conspiracy to cause malicious damage. She was sentenced to six months in prison, which she served in Holloway and Warwick. As a result of hunger strikes, she was repeatedly released and re-arrested under the Cat and Mouse Act [officially the Prisoners (Temporary Discharge for Ill Health) Act 1913] and inevitably her health declined. However, she received support and encouragement from Christabel and Emmeline Pankhurst (with whom she corresponded on WSPU journal business) and from her husband. Little detail of the remainder of Agnes Lake's life is known. She is, however, known to have spent time in the United States and one of her daughters was born in 1921 in New York. She died in June 1972 in Wandsworth, London.