suffragist, trade unionist, one of the first three women to run for St. John's Municipal Council Armine Nutting Gosling (1861–1942) – member of Women's Patriotic Association, suffragette, founder and first Secretary of the Ladies Reading Room and Current Events Club, first female member of the Council of Higher Education in Newfoundland Fannie Knowling McNeil (1869–1928) – suffragist, social activist, member of the Newfoundland Women's Franchise League, and co-founder of the Newfoundland Society of Art, one of the first three women to run for St. John's Municipal Council Janet Morison Miller (1891–1946) – first woman added to the rolls of the Newfoundland Law Society Mary Southcott (1862–1943) – nurse, hospital administrator and campaigner Helena Squires (1879–1959) – social activist, first woman to win a seat in the Newfoundland House of Assembly New Zealand Georgina Abernethy (c. 1859–1906) – active in the Wesleyan church and local Women's Franchise League Lily Atkinson (1866–1921) – speaker, writer, active in many Wellington clubs, president of Women's Christian Temperance Union of New Zealand (WCTU NZ) Ruth Atkinson (1861–1927) – suffragist and temperance activist in Nelson Amey Daldy (1829–1920) – major leader and recruiter Harriet Sophia Cobb (1855–1929) – signer of the 1893 Women's Suffrage Petition Meri Mangakāhia (1868–1920) – Māori campaigner for women's suffrage Harriet Morison (1862–1925) – co-founded the Dunedin Franchise League Mary Müller (1819/1820?–1901) – "New Zealand's pioneer suffragist", pamphleteer, writer Helen Nicol (1854–1902) – co-founded the Dunedin Women's Franchise League Robina Nicol (1861–1942) – signer of the 1893 Women's Suffrage Petition Frances Mary "Fanny" Parker OBE (1875–1924) – New Zealand-born British suffragette Mary Powell (1854–1946) – suffragist and temperance activist Lizzie Frost Rattray (1855–1931) – journalist, suffragist and welfare worker Annie Jane Schnackenberg (1835–1905) – founding member of Auckland branch Women's Christian Temperance Union of New Zealand in February 1885; National President 1891–1901; President Auckland WCTU 1889–1897 Kate Sheppard (1848–1934) – served as national Franchise Superintendent for the Women's Christian Temperance Union of New Zealand (WCTU NZ) which pushed the petition campaigns to win woman suffrage in 1893; appears on the New Zealand ten-dollar note Margaret Sievwright (1844–1905) – helped establish the National Council of Women; President 1901–1904 Anna Stout (1858–1931) – helped establish the WCTU NZ; 1892 President of the Women's Franchise League of Dunedin; 1896 Vice President for the National Council of Women of New Zealand Ada Wells (1863–1933) – 1880s activist who later established the Canterbury Women's Institute See also