Mrs Beatrice Ellen Sanders
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Married
Born: 1875
Died: 1932
Occupation: Financial secretary of WSPU
Main Suffrage Society: WSPU
Society Role: Financial secretary
Arrest Record: Yes
Recorded Entries: 4
Other sources: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4769024
Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866?1928 (1999)
Family information: Husband was a London County Council alderman and, in 1908, a Labour Party candidate in Portsmouth.
Additional Information: Beatrice worked full time as a WSPU financial secretary, with a salary of £3 a week, in 1913. She was sentenced to two weeks in prison in 1907 for her part in a deputation to the House of Commons. She was arrested again in 1910 for smashing windows in protest at the violent way that suffrage demonstrators had been treated by police on 'Black Friday' in November that year. In 1913, she was charged, with other key members of the WSPU staff, for 'conspiracy' to incite others to damage property, in response to the rise of suffragette activity such as arson. She was relelased after six days when she went on hunger strike.