Florence H. Suckling

Florence Horatia Nelson Suckling (8 October 1848 – 10 December 1923) was an English animal welfare activist, writer, humane educator, and local historian. She organised one of the earliest Bands of Mercy in Britain, running classes and magic lantern shows to teach children kindness to animals. An opponent of vivisection, she was active in the RSPCA and Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, and served as the English representative of the American Humane Education Society. Suckling published books and storybooks for children on humane education and natural history, contributed to the RSPCA's Animal World, and wrote historical articles on Hampshire for the Hampshire Field Club & Archaeological Society.