Bertha Ryland
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Bertha Wilmot Ryland (12 October 1882 ā April 1977) was a militant suffragette and member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) who after slashing a painting in Birmingham Art Gallery in 1914 went on hunger strike in Winson Green Prison in Birmingham[1] for which she was awarded the WSPU's Hunger Strike Medal.[2]