Priscilla Crabb JP (née Kennedy; 1 December 1864 – 27 June 1931) was a New Zealand temperance activist and community leader.

Kennedy migrated to New Zealand in her early twenties,[2] and in 1891 she married Ernest Hugh Crabb (1867–1931), a grain merchant and storekeeper.

[4] According to the New Zealand post office directories, the growing family lived on a farm at Waituna West, then Rewa, in the Manawatū-Whanganui region.

[5] By 1913, Crabb was elected president of the Palmerston North chapter of the Women's Christian Temperance Union New Zealand (WCTU NZ), a position she held continuously until 1923.

[5] Since 1885, by law the Hospital Board served as the principal source of distribution for public welfare efforts in Palmerston North.

[11] The Palmerston North Union chose a building on Fitzherbert Street as a site for a home to accommodate an alcohol-free location for relatives of soldiers at the New Zealand Medical Corps Awapuni training camp to stay when visiting.

[13] Given that a medical corps was stationed at Palmerston North, sometimes numbering as many as four hundred, there was a demand for a safe place for the servicemen's wives and children to stay.

The seven-room house sat on a property of five acres at Russell Street, and it could accommodate up to twenty children (from toddlers to twelve-year-olds) and two residential staff.

For Crabb, the purpose included an aim to halt the system of children being boarded out to families who needed the extra income earned per week per child from the local authorities.

WCTU NZ president Rachel Don underwent hydrotherapy treatment then travelled abroad for nearly a year during which she attended the World Woman's Christian Temperance Union convention.

Crabb's furniture was listed in an announcement of auction by her estate, giving a sense of the comfortable type of home she had made during her lifetime.