Bina Cursiter

Bina Cursiter (15 November 1854 – 24 November 1934) was a Scottish suffragist, who played a leading role in Orcadian Women's Suffrage Society, and helped to galvanise the organised women's movement in Orkney.

Life Bina Cursiter was born Jacobina Watt in Edinburgh on 15 November 1854, the daughter of Philip Butler and Elizabeth Watt (née Patterson). James Cursiter was a grocer and general merchant, as well as an archaeologist and antiquarian. The OWSS, who by the end of their first year had 55 members, She was buried in Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh.