Bertha Mason (suffragist)

[2] Addressing the junior members of the British Women's Temperance Association in 1903, she told her audience "You are citizens of a State, whether you know it or not" and emphasised that "You will come to realise that the housing of the poor, the protection of infant life, the safeguarding of the workers, the care of the aged, the mentally afflicted, the education of the young, are your business, your concern.

She prepared a magic lantern slide show and lecture which was summarised as "pictures of unique interest of the forerunners of the movement, the advance guard, the parliamentary champions, the present day workers, election incidents".

[2][3] She toured NUWSS groups, giving the lecture in places such as Bath, Croydon and Mansfield, and it then became the basis of her book.

[7] During the First World War, Mason joined the British Committee of the French Red Cross working in kitchens in France.

She was cremated at Golders Green crematorium and had expressed the wish for her ashes to be scattered near where her sister Edith lay in the cemetery at Worthenbury in Wales.

She left £15,405 (equivalent to about £1,206,402 in 2023) in her will and made a legacy to the Ashton-under-Lyne District Infirmary and Children's Hospital, where two beds were kept in memory of her father and sister.