Isabel Abraham Ross

Isabel McGregor Ross (, 22 August 1885 – 29 October 1964) was a British teacher, suffragist, pacifist and biographer. She campaigned in England and Kenya.

Early life Ross was born Isabel Abraham in Garston, Liverpool, Lancashire in 1885. Her father was Thomas Fell Abraham, a pharmaceutical chemist who was descended from the founder of the Religious Society of Friends, Margaret Fell. Later in life, Ross wrote a biography of her ancestor, titled Margaret Fell: Mother of Quakerism. Ross' mother was her father's first wife, Margaret Sarah Abraham .

Education and early activism Ross studied history at the University of Manchester, where she founded the university women's suffrage society. She lived whilst teaching with Nellie Ross, who would become her sister-in-law. They moved to Nairobi in British East Africa in 1917. The organisation was open to white women only.

Ross said of the suffrage campaign that: White European settler women were granted the right to vote in 1919. She was president until 1920 and was succeeded by Lady Macmillan. She was also a member of the Education Board of Kenya and played an influential part in Nairobi social life.

Return to England Ross and her family returned to England in 1922.

In 1933, Isabel was appointed vice-chair of the British branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF).