Julia Wightman

Her profits and the St. Alkmund's Total Abstinence Society paid for "Wightman's Hall" in Shrewsbury and her work was mirrored by other groups inspired by her example.

Wightman was the daughter of Mary (born Marshall) and lieutenant-colonel William James of the East India Company.

[3] Wives would meet their husbands on pay day to intercept the wages into the family purse before their men went to the pub.

[3] The public were keen to read more from the woman who was trying to prevent drunkenness and they bought 6,000 copies of her follow up book Annals of the Rescued.

[3] Her profits of £700 paid for the land of an ex-tavern in Shrewsbury to be bought[4] and an alcohol-free hall was constructed in Princess Street.

[8] The future MP for Scarborough William Sproston Caine was brought up as a Baptist under the ministry of Hugh Stowell Brown.

Caine would tell the story of how he sat down to drink sherry whilst reading a Temperance book by Wightman.