Mary Hume-Rothery

She campaigned against the Contagious Diseases Act and founded the National Anti Compulsory Vaccination League.

[4][5] He had studied at St Bees Theological College, from 1846, and was ordained deacon in 1848, and a priest of the Church of England in 1849, by James Prince Lee, Bishop of Manchester.

[9] After a number of curacies and incumbencies, William Rothery's last preferment in the Church of England was as curate of Hexham, 1862–4.

He then moved to a room in the Middleton Baths; and subsequently was found a chapel on Manchester Old Road.

[13] She was a leading figure in the Ladies National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts (LNA) set up in 1869.

She was one of the prominent leaders in the LNA's campaign against the Contagious Diseases Acts of 1864, with Josephine Butler, Harriet Martineau and Sarah Richardson.

[15] In June of that year, the Anti-Vaccination League held its first meeting, in Manchester and presided over by Francis William Newman, author of Vaccination Considered Politically (1869).

For some years Cheltenham became the centre of the national movement opposing vaccination, and Mary edited its magazine.

[22] In Keighley, Poor Law Guardians were imprisoned, following resistance tactics against vaccination advocated by William.

[23] A short notice in the British Medical Journal in 1876 mentioned "the efficacy and value of vaccination" and the need for evidence to counterbalance "such irrational and dangerous agitators as Stevens and Hume Rothery.

[26] In 1881 the British Medical Journal complained that a letter on vaccination by Taylor to William Benjamin Carpenter was offensive, and a pamphlet of his "might have been written by Messrs. Hume-Rothery, Baker, Wheeler or Gibbs.

[39] The Divine Unity, Trinity, and At-one-ment: A Monograph (1878)[40] was a joint work by William and Mary Hume-Rothery.

[41] A second edition of Mary's work on Tulk was published in 1890 as A Brief Sketch of the Life, Character, and Religious Opinions of Charles Augustus Tulk by Charles Pooley (1817–1890), a surgeon living in Cheltenham, who added "a short introductory chapter or historical outline of the author's life".