The British Women's Temperance Association (BWTA) was founded following a meeting in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1876 featuring American temperance activist "Mother" Eliza Stewart. Newcastle upon Tyne ( (often shortened to Newcastle) is a city and Metropolitan borough of Tyne and Wear, England Eliza Daniel Stewart, (1816 - 1908 was an early Temperance movement leader Margaret Bright Lucas, who toured with Stewart during these meetings, was elected BWTA president in 1878. Margaret Bright Lucas (1818–1890 was a Temperance activist and Suffragist. A follower of American temperance since visiting the country in 1870, where she was warmly received as "John Bright's sister", she also supported peace and anti-prostitution work, and served on the executives of the National Society for Women's Suffrage and the Ladies' National Association. John Bright ( 16 November 1811 &ndash 27 March 1889) Quaker, was a British Radical and Liberal The National Society for Women's Suffrage was the first national group in the United Kingdom to campaign for women's right to vote Her main concern being temperance, she remained BWTA president until her death.
The BWTA achieved greater success under her successor, Lady Henry Somerset, but ultimately British temperance was destined to achieve less than its American counterpart. Lucas was however, an important link in the Anglo-American women's reform networks as well as being a pioneer in British women's temperance.
References
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biographies
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