Annie Lowe

Annie Lowe (born Ann Hopkins, 12 July 1834 – 14 April 1910) was a suffragist in Victoria, Australia. She and Henrietta Dugdale founded the Victorian Women's Suffrage Society (the suffragettes) in 1884, the first organisation of this kind to be established in Australia.

Biography Lowe was born Ann Hopkins, third daughter of Susanna and William Hopkins, in Wilberforce, New South Wales, on 12 July 1834. Her father was involved with establishing universal suffrage for men in New South Wales. Lowe married Josiah Alexander Lowe on 17 July 1868 at St Peters in Woolloomooloo, and they later moved to Victoria. In 1884 she helped found the Victorian Women's Suffrage Society. She was known for her public speaking. however, she died on 14 April 1910 in St Kilda before she was able to vote in the 1911 state election.