Mary Cooke

Mary Lamley Cooke (3 August 1841 – 4 January 1916) was a British peace campaigner and Quaker minister.

She toured the United Kingdom, campaigning for international arbitration in place of war, mutual disarmament, and the involvement of women in peace.

from 1896 until it ceased publication in 1909, during which it was outspoken on political events such as opposing the Second Boer War.

[1] Cooke was also a Quaker minister and led her local, monthly meeting in Kingston upon Thames.

She continued as a peace campaigner through the beginning of the First World War, before dying from an illness in 1916.