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Vera Laughton Mathews

“It's the kind of gathering where one feels a need to apologize for never having been to prison.”
- Vera Laughton Mathews,
- in Taiwan Communiqué (1996)

Vera Laughton Mathews, English officer (one of first) in WRNS, suffragist

(1888 - 1958)

Full name: Dame Elvira Sibyl Marie Mathews, DBE.