The Fighting Pankhursts. Adela (left) was packed off to Australia when her socialism became embarrassing Adela Pankhurst Walsh in the 1930's needed only a chair to gather a crowd and espouse some cause in which she fervently believed. Miss Adela Mary Pankhurst-Walsh who was a force in the suffragette movement more than home yesterday, aged 73. She was the last surviving member of the famous Pnakhurst suffragette family. September 05, 1951.