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In this post I will focus on a woman named Elizabeth Wigham. She lived from 1820 -1899. Her parents were Jane Richardson and John Tertius Wigham. They lived in Edinburgh, Scotland. The family was part of a network of leading Quaker anti-slavery families in Edingburgh, Glasgow, Newcastle and Dublin.
Elizabeth, together with her some of her friends, set up the Edinburgh chapter of the National Society of Women's Suffrage. She and her friend Agnes McLaren became the secretaries. Priscilla Bright McLaren was the president, and Elizabeth Pease was the treasurer.
In 1840, Elizabeth and her friend Elizabeth Pease Nichol travelled to London to attend the World Anti-Slavery Convention. Also in attendance at this event were Lucy Towsend, Mary Anne Rawson as well as Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The female delegates were obliged to sit separatedly.
In 1863, Elizabeth served on the committee of the Clementia Taylor's Ladies' London Emancipation Society with Mary Estlin.
She, furthermore, played an active role in the British Women's Temperance Association Scottish Christian Union, becoming a national vice president.
Elizabeth died in 1899.
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