Mrs Margaret A Tanner

Other sources: https://www.parliament.uk/1866
Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866?1928 (2001); Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement in Britain and Ireland: A Regional Survey (2006); Anne Dingsdale, 'Generous and Lofty Sympathies: The Kensington Society, the 1866 Women's Suffrage Petition and the Development of Mid-Victorian Feminism' (unpublished PhD, University of Greenwich, 1995)

Database linked sources: https://www.suffrageresources.org.uk/activity/3214/how-effective-was-the-votes-for-women-campaign-in-bristol

Family information: Sister to Anna Maria and Mary Priestman, who also signed the 1866 petition.

Additional Information: Margaret subscribed to the Enfranchisement of Women Committee (EWC) after signing the 1866 petition and, by 1872, was a member of the Bristol and West of England branch of the NSWS. By 1878, Margaret had moved to Winscombe and organised a meeting at nearby Weston-super-Mare, and subsequent local meetings were held there, at which she acted as a speaker. Margaret was also an executive committee member of the Central National Society for Women's Suffrage from 1890, and when in 1910 a branch of the NUWSS started up in Winscombe, she became its secretary in 1913.

Other Suffrage Activities: Margaret was a member of the Bristol Women's Liberal Association, founded by her sister Anna Maria Priestman, and, alongside her other sister, Mary Priestman, was a member of the Ladies National Association to Repeal the Contagious Diseases Acts. She was also president of the Western Temperance League in the 1890s and, as a Quaker, argued in support of women members of the Society of Friends (a Quaker organisation) being more involved in its yearly meetings.