13 Facts About Deborah Bowring

Lady Deborah Bowring born Deborah Castle was a British suffragist and philanthropist.

Deborah Bowring's parents were Mary and Thomas Castle and they lived in Clifton near Bristol.

Deborah Bowring was friends with Mary Carpenter, but she had stronger views about the need for women to demand the right to vote.

Deborah Bowring had died of arsenic poisoning when dozens were killed when poison was added to flour in Hong Kong.

Deborah Bowring went to live in a new house in Exeter called "Claremont Villa".

Deborah Bowring's husband had travelled widely as he was a diplomat and linguist.

Deborah Bowring encouraged giving at their Unitarian church and she donated money to assist the Children's Band of Mercy, the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital and the Albert Memorial Museum.

Deborah Bowring's husband died in 1872 and the following year she published a book of his poetry to which she attached a biography she had written.

Deborah Bowring made the important point that although she paid taxes, she was denied political representation.

Deborah Bowring confirmed her strong opinion regarding giving the vote to women.

Deborah Bowring died in Heavitree near Exeter in 1902 still a vice-president of the Bristol and West of England Society for Women's Suffrage.

Deborah Bowring left a painting and a bust of her husband to the Albert Memorial Museum.

Deborah Bowring's husband had been one of the museum's founders and they had both supported it.