14 Facts About Alice Wheeldon

Alice Ann Wheeldon was a British supporter of universal and women's suffrage and anti-war campaigner.

Alice Wheeldon was convicted in 1917, along with her daughter, Winnie, and son-in-law, Alfred Mason, of conspiracy to murder the Prime Minister, David Lloyd George.

In 1886 she married William Augustus Alice Wheeldon, who was a widowed train driver and later a commercial traveller.

Alice Wheeldon was a friend of members of the Socialist Labour Party, especially John Smith Clarke although a source of membership is not known.

Alice Wheeldon disagreed with the Women's Social and Political Union's strong support for the War and conscription.

Alice Wheeldon took him in for the night and confided in him.

Alice Wheeldon invented the fiction that the work camps for conscientious objectors provided under the Home Office Scheme were guarded by dogs.

Alice Wheeldon was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude, Alfred Mason was sentenced to seven years and Winnie to five years, even though the jury recommended mercy on account of their youth.

Alice Wheeldon was sent to Aylesbury Prison, where she went on intermittent hunger strike; she was later moved to Holloway.

Alice Wheeldon was released from prison on licence on 31 December 1917 at the request of Lloyd George.

Alice Wheeldon's grave was not marked as there was concern it would be defaced.

In 1921 Willie Alice Wheeldon joined a Friends Emergency Victims of War Relief mission going to Buzuluk, Russia.

Alice Wheeldon married in Russia, took Soviet Union citizenship and became a translator for the Comintern.

In January 2012 the BBC reported on a campaign to clear Alice Wheeldon's name, quoting Dr Nicholas Hiley of the University of Kent, who said the case against her was "shaky".