18 Facts About Vera Wentworth

Vera Wentworth had one sibling, a brother called William Wilfrid Spink and her father had a chemists shop.

In 1908 Vera Wentworth joined the Women's Social and Political Union.

Vera Wentworth was quickly arrested demonstrating outside the House of Commons.

Vera Wentworth's sentence was six weeks in prison and an extra day was added to Wentworth's sentence after she carved "Votes for Women" into her cell wall with hairpins.

Vera Wentworth joined a secret spin-off group called the Young Hot Bloods, which pledged to undertake "danger duty" in the name of women's suffrage.

Vera Wentworth was a writer with an ambition to attend university, and member of the Women Writer's Suffrage League.

Vera Wentworth then moved to Bristol in January 1909, to be based with other suffragettes including Annie Kenney, Violet Bland, and Elsie Howey.

Vera Wentworth was invited to Mary Blathwayt's home at Batheaston, where the leading suffragettes met.

Vera Wentworth planted a chamaecyparis nutkaensis conifer tree on 4 July 1909.

Vera Wentworth was awarded a Hunger Strike Medal 'for Valour' by the WSPU.

In March 1909, with Elsie Howey, Vera Wentworth accosted anti-suffrage Bristol Liberal MP Augustine Birrell at Bristol Temple Meads railway station and was arrested.

Howey and Vera Wentworth then tried to contact Asquith at his church.

Vera Wentworth achieved her ambition of attending a university when she started at St Andrews University in 1912 and studied there until 1914.

In March 1912, Vera Wentworth took part in a West End window smashing campaign.

Vera Wentworth respected this line and ceased work with the WSPU.

Vera Wentworth then became an administrator in the Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps, following which she resided in Hendon, Middlesex with Daisy Carden.

Vera Wentworth died in Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital in London in 1957.

Vera Wentworth bequeathed all her assets to her partner in her will.