Mrs Margaret Bright Lucas

Other sources: https://www.parliament.uk/1866
https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw214161/Margaret-Bright-Lucas-Hannah-Smith-ne-Whitall-Mrs-Pearsall-Smith?LinkID=mp130147&search=sas&sText=bright+lucas&role=sit&rNo=0
Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866?1928 (2001)

Family information: Margaret's daughter Katherine also signed the 1866 petition.

Additional Information: After signing the 1866 petition, Margaret subscribed to the Enfranchisement of Women Committee (EWC) and was proposed a member of the committee of the London NSWS, which replaced it in 1867. A case for the vote was brought in her name as a property holder, under the same laws as a case pleaded by Phillippine Kyllman, and similarly failed. She attended suffrage meetings all over the country.

Other Suffrage Activities: Early on, Margaret had been involved in the anti-slavery movement and the Anti-Corn Law League, and was a member of the Ladies Emancipation Society. Later, much of Margaret's energy was devoted to the temperance movement, which sought to encourage people not to drink alcohol, which often went hand in hand with family poverty. In 1877 she became president of the British Women's Temperance Association. She was also a member of the Ladies National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts and was president of the Bloomsbury (London) branch of the Women's Liberal Association.