Born in Alnmouth, Charlotte ('Charlie') Marsh attended St Margaret's School in Newcastle. She trained as a sanitary inspector, but her experience prompted her to dedicated her life to the suffragette movement. She became Yorkshire regional organiser for the WSPU and was an active arsonist. In 1909 she climbed onto the roof of Bingley Hall in Birmingham and hurled missiles. Police with hoses were required to remove her. She was imprisoned - and force-fed 139 times.
Charlotte possessed such poise and beauty that she was frequently chosen to lead suffragette. She carried a large cross in the London funeral procession for her friend Emily Wilding Davison (q.v.), whose body was taken from King's Cross to Morpeth for burial.
During WWI, Charlotte became chauffeur to Lloyd George. He suggested that this arrangement would help the suffragette cause.