14 Facts About Agnes Pochin

Agnes Pochin was an early British campaigner for women's rights.

Agnes Pochin funded campaigns, wrote one of the first tracts and was one of the three speakers at the first suffrage meeting in Manchester.

Agnes Pochin's sister was married to the chemist James Woolley and she married his business partner Henry Pochin.

Agnes Pochin argues for not only equal voting rights but equality with respect to education, divorce, ambition or social aspiration.

Agnes Pochin wrote that "Women's life in the middle classes is, and has been rendered a dull one".

In 1858 Agnes Pochin unsuccessfully tried to get John Bright to introduce a women's right to vote clause into his Reform Bill.

Agnes Pochin was criticised for leaving her children, but it is suspected that her daughter, Lydia, was present at the meeting.

Agnes Pochin would have seen her mother propose the second motion that called on the audience to support the proposal that women who were legally qualified should enter their names on the electoral register.

In 1872 Agnes Pochin became a member of the executive Central Committee for Women's Suffrage.

Agnes Pochin's husband addressed the committee and he expressed the opinion that the committees meeting would mark a turning point in history.

Agnes Pochin moved on to the Women's Emancipation Union in 1892 and over the next decade she made donations to local and national committees.

In 1892 Agnes Pochin was given the honour of launching the battleship HMS Revenge.

Agnes Pochin took the opportunity to challenge the church's historical poor regard for women.

Agnes Pochin died in 1908 and she was buried in the mausoleum known as "the POEM" in the grounds of Bodnant Garden, where she had lived since 1874 in the Conwy valley.