17 Facts About Jane Taylour

Jane Taylour travelled around Scotland and northern England as a suffrage lecturer, and was a key figure in spreading the message of the women's suffrage throughout Scotland and inspiring others to join the National Society for Women's Suffrage.

Jane Taylour's income was probably inherited from her parents' estate in Jamaica, which included enslaved people, income which enabled her to cover the cost to travelled widely for the National Society for Women's Suffrage.

Jane Taylour was interred in the Society of Friends' burial ground.

Jane Taylour addressed gave public lectures and lecture tours on women's suffrage in London, the North-East of England and in Scotland.

In 1869 Clementia Taylor asked Jane Taylour to undertake a lecture tour, and from 1870 she gave public lectures throughout Scotland and Northeast England campaigning for women's equality and suffrage, as the honorary secretary of the Galloway Branch of the National Society for Women's Suffrage.

Jane Taylour sent in a petition in favour of Jacob Bright's Bill to remove women's electoral disabilities.

Jane Taylour was described by women's rights activist Clementia Taylor as "the energetic little woman from Stranraer".

Jane Taylour's lecture was followed by a resolution which emphasised that taxation was the basis of representation.

Jane Taylour was accompanied on some of her lecture tours in Scotland by fellow campaigners Mary Hill Burton and Agnes McLaren.

McLaren and Jane Taylour travelled to the north of Scotland because "everything that could be done in Edinburgh had been done", as members of the Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage and county members had voted and petitioned, and the Town Council had petitioned in favour of votes for women.

Jane Taylour's lectures were given extensive media coverage; The Orkney Herald gave her lectures in Orkney full coverage and reproduced her speeches in full, and her speech in Lerwick in Shetland on 12 September 1873 was fully reported in The Shetland Times.

Jane Taylour returned two years later on 18 January 1887 to give a lecture on allowing women greater political and social equality with men, and returned to Gainsborough again on 31 May 1885 on women and politics at the Primitive Methodist Mutual Improvement Association.

Jane Taylour was the First Honorary Secretary of the Galloway branch of the National Society for Women's Suffrage from 1870 to 1872.

Jane Taylour was joint Secretary of the Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage, one of the first three suffrage societies to be formed in Britain, with Agnes McLaren from 1873 to 1876, and an executive member of the central committee of the national Society.

In recognition of her voluntary efforts for the cause of women's suffrage in Scotland, Jane Taylour was presented with jewellery and 150 guineas.

Jane Taylour was mentioned on the University of Edinburgh Information Services Celebrating 100 years of votes for women.

Jane Taylour is one of the activists included in Scotland's Suffragette Trumps and educational packs sent to Scottish schools.