Mary Lloyd (abolitionist)

Members included Lloyd, Jane Smeal, Elizabeth Pease, Joseph Sturge, Thomas Clarkson, William Wilberforce, Henry Brougham, Thomas Fowell Buxton, Elizabeth Heyrick and Anne Knight.

[2] Lucy Townsend founded the first Ladies Anti-Slavery Society in Birmingham, West Midlands, on 8 April 1825.

[5] Other founding members included Elizabeth Heyrick, Sophia Sturge and Sarah Wedgwood.

[1] For many years these anti-slavery organisations, that were run by women, were dismissed as of marginal interest, but recent research has revealed that these groups had a distinct and national impact.

[1] Lloyd and her husband were buried in the grounds of the Quaker meeting house in Bull Street in Birmingham.