Helen Wilson

Dr. Helen Mary Wilson (1 December 1864 – 29 December 1951) was a physician and social purity campaigner.

Wilson was born in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire and moved to Sheffield early in her childhood.

In 1892 Wilson was House surgeon at the London Temperance Hospital. previously known as the Ladies' National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts. She took a humane approach to women in and in danger of falling into prostitution, rather than punitive one, and argued against double standards in the law on prostitution. From 1916 to 1919 she was Chair of the Women's Training Colony in Newbury, Berkshire, a work camp that aimed to provide responsibility, independence and occupation. the first woman to hold the role in Sheffield.

Archives Archival materials relating to Wilson are held at The Women's Library at the London School of Economics, including a scrapbook of Dr Wilson's containing ephemera relating to the suffrage campaigns in Sheffield and the Sheffield Women's Suffrage Society.