# Bertha Bacon

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British suffragette and tax resister(1866–1922)

Bertha Bacon Born 1866 (1866) Abbess Roding, Essex, England Died 19 April 1922(1922-04-19) (aged 55–56) Hornchurch, Essex, England Organization(s) Women's Social and Political Union, Women's Tax Resistance League

**Bertha Bacon** ([née](/source/Birth_name#Maiden_and_married_names) **Thurgood**, 1866–19 April 1922)[1] was a British [suffragette](/source/Suffragette) and member of the [Women's Tax Resistance League](/source/Women's_Tax_Resistance_League).

## Life

Bacon was born in 1866 in [Abbess Roding](/source/Abbess_Roding), [Essex](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Westminster_Palace_Hotel),[1][5] valued at £5.[3] The [Bishop of Gloucester](/source/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](/source/Women's_Tax_Resistance_League),* which used [tax resistance](/source/Tax_resistance) to protest against the disenfranchisement of women. In April 1913, in [Romford](/source/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](/source/Hornchurch), Essex.[5]

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-:0_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-:0_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-:0_1-2) ["THE LIVES AND ACTIONS OF SUFFRAGETTES AND SUFFRAGISTS: Bacon and Baines"](https://uncoveryourancestors.org/blog/archives/12-2015/). *Uncover Your Ancestors*. 12 April 2015. Retrieved 6 November 2024.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Mrs Bertha Bacon / Database - Women's Suffrage Resources"](https://www.suffrageresources.org.uk/database/1542/mrs-bertha-bacon). *www.suffrageresources.org.uk*. Retrieved 18 February 2025.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-:1_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-:1_3-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-:1_3-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-:1_3-3) ["Bertha Bacon, Jennie, George and George Wilfred Baines"](https://www.suffragettesandsuffragists.com/database/suffragettes-bacon-and-the-baines-family). *RESEARCHING SUFFRAGETTES AND SUFFRAGISTS*. Retrieved 6 November 2024.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-:3_4-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-:3_4-1) ["Wimbledon Suffragettes in Court"](https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0004578%2F19111202&page=2&article=008&stringtohighlight=bertha+bacon). *Wimbledon News*. 2 December 1911. p. 2. Retrieved 18 February 2025.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-:2_5-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-:2_5-1) Suffragettes: Amnesty of August 1914: Index of Women Arrested 1906-1914. HO 45/24665. [The National Archives of the UK](/source/The_National_Archives_(United_Kingdom)), Kew, Surrey, England.

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