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Priscilla Bright McLaren
Born
Priscilla Bright

8 September 1815
Rochdale, England
Died5 November 1906(1906-11-05) (aged 91)
Edinburgh, Scotland
NationalityEnglish
EducationHannah Johnson's school in Liverpool
Known forSuffragist and abolitionist
SpouseDuncan McLaren
ChildrenCharles McLaren
Helen Priscilla McLaren
Walter McLaren
RelativesJacob Bright (brother)
Margaret Bright Lucas (sister)

Priscilla Bright McLaren (8 September 1815 – 5 November 1906) was an English activist who served and linked the anti-slavery movement with the women's suffrage movement in the nineteenth century. She was a member of the Edinburgh Ladies' Emancipation Society and, after serving on the committee, became the president of the Edinburgh Women's Suffrage Society.[1]

  1. ^ Midgley, Clare (1995). Women Against Slavery. Routledge. p. 173. ISBN 0415127084.

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