As one of the first women justices of the peace in Christchurch she was later made an associate magistrate to the Children’s Court. Within the Christchurch branch of the National Council of Women, Elizabeth Taylor promoted issues such as a motherhood endowment, women police, the right of married women to retain their own nationality, and women in politics.
New Zealand domestic worker and community leader
New Zealand botanist, teacher and temperance campaigner
New Zealand teacher, temperance worker and suffragist
New Zealand teacher, temperance worker and political activist
African-American writer, temperance activist and music professor
New Zealand temperance campaigner, suffragist and feminist
Canadian politician, temperance and women’s rights activist, who made history as the first woman elected to a legislature in the British Empire.
Pioneering physician in the Philadelphia African-American community and one of the first Black women to become a physician in the United States.
New Zealand teacher, prohibitionist, landowner, businesswoman