Winifred Jones (suffragette)

Jones was arrested and imprisoned several times in 1909 and 1910 for her participation in suffragette protests and the Women's Social and Political Union's window-smashing campaign.

In 1909, the Chancellor of the Exchequer David Lloyd George visited Newcastle to gain public backing for his People's Budget, which aimed to introduce new welfare programs to the United Kingdom.

On Friday, 8 October, Christabel Pankhurst and Constance Lytton met with other suffragettes to finalise their plans for protesting at Lloyd George's public meetings, and to discuss what would happen if they were arrested.

Jones and the ten other arrested suffragettes wrote an open letter to The Times[1] which included the line:We appeal to the Government to yield, not to the violence of our protest, but the reasonableness of our demand.

The Jones siblings worked alongside suffragette sisters Agnes and Millicent Fawcett to pay for repairs to the statue of Elizabeth I in St-Dunstan’s-in-the-West Church, London.