Agnes Elizabeth Slack

Agnes Elizabeth Slack or Agnes Elizabeth Saunders (15 October 1858 – 16 January 1946) was a leading English Temperance advocate.

Life Slack was born in Ripley, Derbyshire in 1858. Her Liberal Wesleyan Methodist parents were Mary Ann (born Bamford) and Thomas Slack. Her father made bricks and her elder brother, John Bamford Slack, would become a minister and politician. At the age of 14 she was sent to a boarding school in Lincoln. She was the last President of the National British Temperance Women's Association until it merged with the Women's Total Abstinence Union. As a result, she was the founding President of the National British Women's Total Abstinence Union. The following year, her niece Aelfrida Tillyard, published the first biography of her life, documenting her travels to Canada, America, Scandinavia and South Africa. In the same year she became the first woman to preach at Wesley's Chapel.