Bertha Bacon

Bertha Bacon (nee Thurgood, 1866–19 April 1922)[1] was a British suffragette and member of the Women's Tax Resistance League.

Life

Bacon was born in 1866 in Ongar, Essex. She was one of eight children.[2]

Bacon was a suffragette and was arrested on November 24th, 1911, for smashing three windows of the dining room at the Westminster Palace Hotel,[1][3] valued at £5.[2] The Bishop of Gloucester had been sitting next to a window that was smashed.[2] She was fined £5 or twenty one days imprisonment and £4 damages.[1]

After her release from prison, she became a member of the Women's Tax Resistance League, which used tax resistance to protest against the disenfranchisement of women. In April 1913, in Romford, Essex, a gold ring set with a coral and two pearls was auctioned off to pay her tax bill.[2]

She died in 1922 at Hornchurch, Essex.[3]

References

1. "THE LIVES AND ACTIONS OF SUFFRAGETTES AND SUFFRAGISTS: Bacon and Baines". Uncover Your Ancestors. 12 April 2015. Retrieved 6 November 2024.
2. "Bertha Bacon, Jennie, George and George Wilfred Baines". RESEARCHING SUFFRAGETTES AND SUFFRAGISTS. Retrieved 6 November 2024.
3. Suffragettes: Amnesty of August 1914: Index of Women Arrested 1906-1914. HO 45/24665. The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey, England.