Mrs Mentia Taylor

Other sources: https://www.parliament.uk/1866
https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/mrs-peter-taylor-clementia/TwGrdj9tReWl1w
Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866?1928 (2001)

Family information: Married Peter (P A) Taylor in 1842. Both were involved in social and political campaigning.

Additional Information: In 1866, all the signatures gathered for the petition to Parliament were collated at Clementia's house, and she held meetings there, acting as a facilitator for suffrage campaign 'get togethers'. In 1866, she was treasurer for the London Provisional Petition Committee, and afterwards for the Committee for the Enfranchisement of Women. She was instrumental in forming the London NSWS, of which she was secretary and later executive committee member. Although staying with them until 1874, she resigned her committee seat in protest at her exclusion from the meeting organised by Jacob and Ursula Bright to form the Central Committee of the NSWS ? she felt because of jealousy of her role in the movement on his part. Nevertheless, she was, by 1878, a member of its executive committee. In 1889, she was a member of the council of the Women's Franchise League (WFraL) and, in 1897, a member of the Women's Emancipation Union (WEU), by then in her nineties.

Other Suffrage Activities: In 1863, Clementia became honorary secretary of the London Ladies Emancipation Society. Clementia supported many causes throughout her life. She was active in the anti-slavery movement and Sarah Remond stayed with her at her home during her time in London. She and her husband founded the Aubrey Institute in the grounds of their home in Kensington, London (1869), providing education and recreation for workers of both sexes, with a library and reading room. In 1875 in Pimlico, London, Clementia also established a Home for Young Women and Servants. Throughout the 1870s and 80s, she was treasurer of the Vigilance Association for the Defence of Personal Rights, a member of the general committee of the Women's Hospital and executive member of the Married Women's Property Committee, and she was active in forming the Ladies Educational Association in 1869, calling for the admission of female students to University College, London.