Mrs Elizabeth Pease Nichol

Other sources: https://www.parliament.uk/1866
Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866?1928 (2001); Claire Midgley, Women Against Slavery: The British Campaigns 1780?1870 (1992)

Family information: Daughter of a manufacturer. Married John Pringle Nichol, Prof. of Astronomy at Glasgow University, in 1853.

Additional Information: In 1870, after signing the 1866 petition, Elizabeth joined the Edinburgh NSWS, becoming treasurer, and in May 1884, signed the Letter from Ladies to Members of Parliament, asking for women who were heads of households to be included in the government's Franchise (voting) Bill.

Other Suffrage Activities: Elizabeth got into social and political campaigning by working as her father's secretary on causes such as Catholic emancipation, abolition of the Test Acts (which restricted Catholics' and non-conformists' rights to work in public office) and the abolition of slavery ? she founded a Darlington branch of the Women's Abolition Society circa 1836. Elizabeth was also active in other areas, sitting on the executive committee of the Ladies National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts and on the Committee for Securing Complete Medical Education to Women in Edinburgh in 1871. Later, in 1877, she also became a member of the governing council of the London School of Medicine for Women.