Belle Golding

Isabella Theresa "Belle" Golding[2] (25 November 1864 – 11 December 1940)[2] was an Australian feminist, suffragist and labour activist.

Belle Golding was born in Tambaroora, in Wellington County, New South Wales, to Joseph Golding (died 1890), a gold-miner from Galway, Ireland, and his Scottish wife, Ann (née Fraser, died 1906).

She and her sisters, Annie Mackenzie Golding and Kate Dwyer, joined the Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales in about 1893, before forming the Women's Progressive Association in 1904.

[2] Under the Early Closing Act of 1899, Golding became Australia's first female inspector of public schools.

[3] After retiring due to ill health in 1926[4] and she was later succeeded by Louise Alice Brown in 1930.