Florence Tunks

Florence Olivia Tunks (19 July 1891 – 22 February 1985) was a militant suffragette and member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) who with Hilda Burkitt engaged in a campaign of arson in Suffolk in 1914 for which they both received prison sentences.

In April 1914 Tunks with her fellow-suffragette Hilda Burkitt burnt down two wheat stacks at Bucklesham Farm valued at £340, the Pavilion at the Britannia Pier in Great Yarmouth and the Bath Hotel in Felixstowe, causing £35,000 of damage to the latter as part of the campaign for women's suffrage.

[8] The two women refused to answer questions in Court and sat on a table chatting throughout the proceedings with their backs to the magistrates.

In 1946 she is listed on the Nursing Register as living with her widowed mother in the family home at Bisham Gardens in Highgate.

She never married and died in Glindon Nursing Home on Lewes Road in Eastbourne, East Sussex in 1985 aged 93.