Priscilla Crabb

Priscilla Crabb
JP
Priscilla Crabb JP
	Crabb in 1926
Born	Priscilla Kennedy; 1 December 1864; Franklin, Tasmania, Australia
Died	27 June 1931 (aged 66); Palmerston North, New Zealand
Other names	Prisca Crabb
Known for	humanitarian works, temperance activism, acting president of Women's Christian Temperance Union New Zealand
Spouse	Ernest Hugh Crabb
Relatives	Helen Crabb (daughter); Lance Tompkins (grandson); David Tompkins (great-grandson); Arthur Tompkins (great-great-grandson);

Priscilla Crabb JP (née Kennedy; 1 December 1864 – 27 June 1931) was a New Zealand temperance activist and community leader. For over a decade, she was a vice president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union of New Zealand (WCTU NZ), and she was acting president in 1920. She was one of the first women elected to the Palmerston North Hospital Board, and in 1928 she became the first woman in Palmerston North to be appointed a justice of the peace. While president of the local WCTU NZ chapter, she founded in 1917 an orphanage and refuge for mothers, the Willard Home (named after Frances Willard), which continues today on the same site as a rest home for the elderly.