Miss Elizabeth Wilmhurst French
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Wife of a grocer and wheelwright
1866 Petition: Yes
Petition Area: Collier Street, Staplehurst, Kent, England
Sources:
Other sources: https://www.parliament.uk/1866
Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement in Britain and Ireland: A Regional Survey (2006)
Further Information:
Additional Information: One year after signing the petition, Elizabeth presented Kent's first own women's suffrage petition in 1867.
Other Suffrage Activities: Elizabeth was quite a social radical for her time, being openly in favour of birth control and wearing trousers when this was seen as a 'deviant' activity for women.