Helena Jones
Helena Gertrude Jones (14 July 1870 – 4 September 1946) was a British doctor and suffragette who campaigned for women's vote during the early twentieth century. Although sharing the platform with many notable suffragists, including Emmeline Pankhurst, she broke away from the Women's Social and Political Union, of whom she was a regional organiser, to challenge Pankhurst's decision to curtail the suffrage aims during the First World War. Personal history Jones was born in Conwy, Wales on 14 July 1870, the daughter of a solicitor. She entered the Church of England sisterhood at the age of 18. Initially working at a home in Surrey for the female children of convicted parents, she left to study medicine in London in 1895, graduating in 1901. She undertook a posting as a medical officer in a sanatorium before taking a position at Greenwich Infirmary. She later became a Medical Officer for Kings Norton Education Board. Around 1909 she moved to Halifax. By 1916 she had taken up the role as medical officer for health in the Rhondda Valleys. She retired as the medical officer for the Rhondda Valleys in 1935, but subsequently worked as an assistant medical officer at Tetbury in Gloucestershire. She