Eliza Brown Newton Smart

Eliza Brown Newton Smart (1844–1930) was a Portugal-born British missionary and temperance reformer. She served as President of the Madeira Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).

Biography Eliza Brown Newton was born at Funchal, Madeira, February 25, 1844. In 1908, they were associated with the West Central Africa Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church Missionary Society.

When Mary Greenleaf Clement Leavitt visited Madeira, in 1893, she appointed Smart president of the Madeira WCTU, which office she held at least until 1929. At the World's Woman's Temperance Convention at Geneva, Switzerland, in 1903, Smart presented the Portuguese flag. Throughout her long years of missionary service, she was very active in the cause of temperance among the sailors on board ships stopping at the port of Funchal, as well as among the children in the Portuguese schools of the island.