Bertha Bacon

Bacon was born in 1866 in Abbess Roding, Essex.^[2] She was one of eight children.^[3]

Bacon was a suffragette and member of the Wimbledon branch of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU).^[4] She was arrested on 24 November 1911, for smashing three windows of the dining room at the Westminster Palace Hotel,^[1][5] valued at £5.^[3] The Bishop of Gloucester had been sitting next to a window that was smashed.^[3] She explained that she had broken the windows because "It was my duty. There is a wave of feminine indignation sweeping over the country and we cannot help it."^[4] She was fined £5 or twenty one days imprisonment and £4 damages.^[1]

After her release from prison, she also 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.^[3]

She died in 1922 at Hornchurch, Essex.^[5]