Euphemia Bridges Bowes (née Allen) (1816–1900) was a suffragette and social activist, who campaigned for the temperance movement and helped to raise the age of consent and fight against child prostitution.

[1] Bowes was a driving member of the Sydney, and, New South Wales branches of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, which was founded in 1882.

[2] She felt that giving women voting rights would be an excellent means of establishing control over the sale and consumption of liquor.

Thanks to her substantial contribution to the movement, Bowes was voted honorary life president in 1893 and she was succeeded by Sara Susan Nolan.

[1] In 1886, Bowes was one of five women who founded a ladies' committee as an offshoot of the New South Wales Social Purity Society.