Acting
Hetty Bower
1905-2013
Known for London: The Modern Babylon, The Time of Their Lives, Britain's Greatest Generation.
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Born09/28/1905
Died11/12/2013
AgeDied at 108
BirthplaceDalston, London, England, UK
DepartmentActing
Biography
Hetty Bower was a British political activist and suffragette, known for devoting her life to political campaigning since the early 1920s. At the age of 108, Hetty Bower was the oldest member of Humanists UK when she died, and also the UK’s longest-standing political activist, having begun her campaigning in the early 1920s. Hetty participated in the 1926 General Strike and the Battle of Cable Street in 1936. During the Second World War, she ran a refugee hostel for Czechoslovakians. She was a founding member of the Campaign For Nuclear Disarmament, and a veteran of many other progressive causes.
