
Hetty Bower
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1905-09-28
Day of Death
2013-11-12 (108 years old)
Place of Birth
Dalston, London, England, UK
Hetty Bower
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.
Acting
(2012)
London: The Modern Babylon
as Self - Interviewee
(2009)
The Time of Their Lives
as Herself