Annie Carvosso

Annie Carvosso (née Eliza Ann Adams; 18 August 1861 – 20 February 1932) was an English-born Australian activist and social reformer engaged in work for women and children in Queensland.

[4] She was educated privately and at the Teachers’ Training College, Sydney, New South Wales, her family having removed to Australia in 1871.

[4] In 1885, she married William Henry Carvosso, of Brisbane, Queensland, sheriff of the Supreme Court,[3] afterward making her home in that city.

During the first year of her residence there, Mary Greenleaf Clement Leavitt, the White Ribbon missionary from the U.S., then touring Australia, reached Brisbane, to begin her work of organizing the W.C.T.U.

She was the first inter-State secretary of the National Council of Women of Queensland[3] of which she afterwards became president, and for many years, she was connected with the Junior Christian Endeavour at the old Wharf Street Congregational Church, Brisbane.