Angela Tuckett

In 1962 Angela Tuckett married Ike Gradwell, secretary of the Swindon Communist Party.

In 1935 she refused to salute Hitler at a game in Berlin and the All England Women's Hockey Association did not reselect her for the team.

[6] In 1940 she directed the legal department of the National Council for Civil Liberties and in 1942 she joined the staff of the Daily Worker.

[6] Other than being the first female solicitor in Bristol, Tuckett, together with her sister, wrote plays on women's rights like: The Bulls see Red, Passing unnoticed, Smash and Grab, Aiden & Abetten, and Charity begins.

[6] The papers of Bristol Unity Players' Club covering minutes for 1937–46, correspondence, 1938–47, scripts, programmes, and photographs were deposited in the University of Warwick's Modern Records Centre in 1980 by Angela Tuckett.