Jane Procter (2 November 1810 – 5 January 1882) was a British headmistress, suffragist and temperance campaigner.

She was the eldest daughter of the four children of Elizabeth (born Thurnam) and James Procter.

[1] Jane Proctor founded her first school in Selby which lasted for twenty years.

[2][3][4] In 1850 she and her sister Elizabeth founded the "Darlington Women's Temperance Association" which met at the school.

[5] There was about 1,500 signatures on the petition and it was used in support of John Stuart Mill's defeated proposal that the second reform bill should use the word "person" rather than "man" to define a voter.