Alice Clark
British suffragist and pacifist
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Caroline Townshend
British stained glass artist and suffragist
Ruth Cavendish Bentinck
Founder of the Cavendish Bentinck Library, Ruth was involved with the National Federation of Women Workers and the Fabian Society. She was also a keen supporter of the women’s suffrage movement.
Rosa May Billinghurst
British suffragist
Flora Murray
British doctor and suffragette during the early 20th century
Herabai Tata
Indian women’s rights activist and suffragist
Mithan Jamshed Lam
Indian lawyer, women’s rights activist and the first Indian woman barrister, lawyer at the Bombay High Court and Sheriff of Mumbai
Beatrice Webb
One of the four founders of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Mary E Garrett
American philanthropist who donated money to start the Johns Hopkins University Medical School in 1893 on the condition that the school would accept women students “on the same terms as men”.
Elizabeth Nicholls
Elizabeth Nicholls was a highly important figure in the campaigns in South Australia and eventually, nationally, for restriction of the sale of alcohol and the movement to extend political rights from her base in the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).