About Eleanor Phoebe Smith
Lived 1828 – 1913 (aged 84–85). Eleanor Phoebe Smith was a New Zealand and British editor and suffragist.
Eleanor Phoebe Smith (née Macleod; 1828 – 19 March 1913) was a New Zealand suffragist and magazine editor. She was considered one of the pioneers of the woman suffrage movement in New Zealand.
Early life Smith was born in Bristol, England and married James Thomas Smith in 1849. The couple emigrated from England with five children in 1860 - one infant died during the voyage. The family settled in Christchurch, New Zealand and a further two children were born there.
Smith joined the Women's Christian Temperance Union New Zealand when a chapter in Christchurch formed in 1885, and the Canterbury Women's Institute which formed in 1892. She was present at the first meeting of the National Council of Women in 1896 and was still a vice president of the Women's Institute at the time of her death.
She was an active member of the St Albans Methodist Church and president of the church's Ladies' Guild. and she was buried in Linwood Cemetery.
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New Zealand magazine editor and suffragist
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Eleanor Phoebe Smith was born in 1828 in Bristol.
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Eleanor Phoebe Smith died in 1913.
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Eleanor Phoebe Smith was an editor and suffragist.
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