Alice Cambridge

Alice Cambridge (1 January 1762 – 1 January 1829) was an early Irish Methodist preacher.

Life Cambridge was born in Bandon in County Cork on New Years Day 1762. Her mother was a Presbyterian and her father was a member of the Church of Ireland. Cambridge was taken to her mother's church but resolved as she became older to join the Methodists in Bandon. She wanted to be a preacher and she abandoned a boyfriend to concentrate on evangelism. It was a novelty to hear a woman preaching, Cambridge still attracted interest as she visited towns in the county of Munster.

After Wesley died, the Methodist church decided that it did not support women preaching. In July 1802 the Methodist conference passed a resolution that any women preaching or merely exhort should be ejected from the church. Her supporters suggested that she found her own church but she kept faith with the Methodists despite being excluded from any Methodist building.