Elizabeth Pease Nichol

Elizabeth Pease Nichol
Born
Elizabeth Pease

5 January 1807
Darlington, England
Died3 February 1897(1897-02-03) (aged 90)
Edinburgh, Scotland
Known forAbolitionist and suffragist

Elizabeth Nichol (née Pease; 5 January 1807 – 3 February 1897) was an English abolitionist, anti-segregationist, woman suffragist, chartist and anti-vivisectionist. She was active in the Peace Society, the Temperance movement and founded the Darlington Ladies Anti-Slavery Society. In 1853 she married Dr. John Pringle Nichol (1804–1859), Regius Professor of Astronomy at the University of Glasgow. She was one of about six women who were in the painting of the World Anti-Slavery Convention of 1840.