Emily Rose Bleby (2 June 1849 – 3 May 1917) was a Jamaican-born social reformer active in the British temperance movement.
Henry Bleby (1809–1882), was a Wesleyan Methodist missionary who worked for 46 years in the West Indies; he was also a prolific author.
Bleby, in missionary, Sunday school, and educational work in the various Jamaican islands, also in The Bahamas and in British Guiana.
She was made a member of the national executive committee of the British Women’s Temperance Association in 1895, and in 1897, superintendent of the World’s Missionary Department of the same organization.
[7] In 1912, Bleby began to suffer from Paralysis agitans, and left London for Penarth,[7] residing at 153 Stanwell Road,[8] where she continued to be active for the good of those about her until failing health precluded her from doing so.