Birth reg June qrtr 1851 Bridgwater Vol X p 35776 Magistrate. “Annie Leigh Browne (1851-1936), suffragist, was a friend of Frances Power Cobbe, a founder of the Society for Promoting the Return of Women as County Councillors and a member of the Central Society for Women's Suffrage and its successor, the London Society for Women's Suffrage.”Women’s Library: home page196 See also correspondenc of Helen Taylor, step-daughter of John Stuart Mill192
Gave land in the Byes (Sidmouth) to National Trust, and with her sister Mary (Lady Lockyer) gave 40 acres on Salcombe Hill for Observatory.81 Owned Woolcombe House and May Cottage (which became Victoria Hospital) in Sidmouth.161
Aged 84 at death - reg Mar qrtr Paddington Vol 1a p 3576
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