1. Eliza Wigham, born Elizabeth Wigham, was a Scottish campaigner for women's suffrage, anti-slavery, peace and temperance in Edinburgh, Scotland.
10 Facts About Eliza Wigham
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Eliza Wigham was involved in several major campaigns to improve women's rights in 19th-century Britain, and has been noted as one of the leading citizens of Edinburgh.
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Eliza Wigham's stepmother, Jane Smeal, was a leading activist in Glasgow and together they made the Edinburgh Ladies' Emancipation Society.
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Eliza Wigham's brother John Richardson Wigham was a prominent lighthouse engineer.
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Eliza Wigham was the treasurer of the Edinburgh Ladies' Emancipation Society.
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In 1863 Eliza Wigham served on the committee of Clementia Taylor's Ladies' London Emancipation Society with Mary Estlin.
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Eliza Wigham was involved with the campaign to repeal acts of Parliament which aimed to contain prostitution.
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Eliza Wigham played an active role in the British Women's Temperance Association Scottish Christian Union, becoming a national vice president.
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Eliza Wigham's father died in 1864, after which she continued to live at her stepmother Jane's house at South Gray Street, Edinburgh.
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Eliza Wigham cared for Jane, who was in ill health until her death in November 1888.