Elizabeth Nichol (née Pease; 5 January 1807 – 3 February 1897) was an English abolitionist, anti-segregationist, woman suffragist, chartist[1] and anti-vivisectionist.

Charles Stuart, an Anti-Slavery abolitionist and lecturer, encouraged her to send a female delegate or attend a national society being formed by Joseph Sturge.

Pease resisted more public involvement, as she did not seek the limelight but wanted to work locally for the causes she held to be important.

[citation needed] At the time, women attendees were required to sit in segregated areas out of sight of the male delegates.

They included George Bradburn, Wendell Phillips, James Mott, William Adam, Isaac Winslow, J. P. Miller and Henry B. Stanton.

It attracted delegates from the United States, France, Haiti, Australia, Ireland, Jamaica and Barbados, as well as Great Britain.

A group including Eliza and Jane Wigham had set up the Edinburgh chapter of the National Society of Women's Suffrage.

The group aimed to gain recognition for Elizabeth Pease Nichol, Priscilla Bright McLaren, Eliza Wigham and Jane Smeal – the city's "forgotten heroines".