Ada Wright

Ada Cecile Granville Wright was born in Granville, France, around 1862. (half-sister of Octavia Hill) and English lectures by Edward Aveling. After travelling widely with her family, she was able to follow her previous desire and take up social work in 1885, when she settled in Sidmouth. She worked in a settlement house with a niece of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. She joined the local women's suffrage society. After leaving Sidmouth, Wright worked at the West London Mission with Maude Stanley, running a club for working girls in Greek Street, Soho. Later she was a probationer nurse at the London Hospital. == Role in suffrage movement ==

After moving back home in Sidmouth to take care of her aging father, she further moved to Bournemouth and joined the local branch of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies. In March 1907 she was with the Women's Parliament in Caxton Hall and was imprisoned for two weeks. Before then she had been impressed by Annie Kenney and Christabel Pankhurst and gave up NUWSS as "being ineffective for making the question of justice to women a living force" and sent her own savings (£12; £ in ) to Mrs Pankhurst. Whilst in prison she resolved to dedicate herself to engaging in a range of activism for the WSPU. Due to the effect on her health, Wright was released after serving four of the six months sentence and went to recuperate in Switzerland with Charlie Marsh. == Death and legacy ==

In the year before the Second World War she served as an Air Raid Patrol Warden. She died in Finchley in 1939, and was described as "one of those quiet women whose gently and calm manner hides a courageous and indomitable nature of unexpected depths". ==References==