Helen Beatrice de Rastricke Hanson (6 January 1874 – 6 July 1926) was a British physician, missionary and suffragist.

She was with her family as they moved to Richmond and then to Bognor Regis until at fourteen she was sent to a boarding school run by her cousins.

She worked at the Hospital for Women and Children at Bristol, and the Morpeth and Menston county asylums before deciding to leave the country.

She had decided to take her skills to India like her role model Mary Scharlieb (who had taught her obstetrics and gynaecology).

[2] However she left India in 1909 and chose to travel in steerage class so that she could donate the five pounds saved to the suffragette cause.

She joined Emmeline Pankhurst's Women's Social and Political Union and she was one of those arrested on Black Friday.

Under the auspices of the Church league she had published her own ideas of how suffragists and missionaries should combine their forces.

[1] During the first war she served with the Red Cross before she was transferred to the Scottish Women's Hospital Unit.