Married woman president heads spinster protest march. Thress thousand spinsters marched from the Kingsway Hall, where they attended a meeting, to Hyde Park for a demonstration to protest for pensions for spinsters at the age of 55. The protest meeting followed the rejection of the spinsters claims by Sir Kingsley Wood, Health Minister. Photo shows, Mrs Gwen Farrar (nearest camera), the actress and her former partner, Mrs Laura Hughes (formerly Nora Blaney) her partner, in a car at the head of the procession. president of the Bradford branch. 5 June 1937