Margaret Bright Lucas
1818–90
Temperance activist and suffragist. Daughter of Jacob Bright (1775–1851), cotton mill proprietor, and his second wife, Martha Wood; sister of John Bright. Married Samuel Lucas (1811–65, ODNB) in 1839. President, British Women’s Temperance Association, 1878–90. In 1879, petitioned the House of Commons to close public houses on Sundays. Made several trips to America; was an important link in Anglo-American women’s reform networks and a pioneer in British women’s temperance.
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ODNB
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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