Nessie Stewart-Brown

Nessie Stewart-Brown JP (née Muspratt; 5 September 1864 – 7 April 1958) was a British suffragist and Liberal Party politician.

[1] Stewart-Brown became Honorary Secretary of the ladies' branch of the Liverpool Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

In 1894 she co-founded the Liverpool Women's Suffrage Society (local branch of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies NUWSS) with Mrs Alfred Booth and Edith Bright, at a meeting at which Millicent Fawcett was the guest speaker.

[5] She was Liberal candidate for the safe Unionist seat of Waterloo, a division of Lancashire at the 1922 General Election.

Her name and picture (and those of 58 other women's suffrage supporters) are on the plinth of the statue of Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square, London, unveiled in April 2018.