Louie Simpson

Sarah Louisa Simpson (1854 – 10 February 1941) was a British political activist.

Born in Lambeth as Sarah Louisa Wilmott, she was educated privately, then at the College for the Higher Education of Christian Women in Clapham. She married Dr Robert Simpson in 1889, living initially in Bristol, then in 1895 the couple moved in Plymouth.

In Plymouth, Simpson became active in the Liberal Party, and in 1898 she was the only woman to win election to the town's Board of Guardians. In this role, she worked to improve conditions in the workhouse infirmary, served on the city's Distress Committee, and from 1910, chaired its Children's Committee. She was the Labour Party's only woman candidate in the West of England. The Times noted that her main policy was for international peace, and she worked hard to win the votes of Liberal Party supporters, addressing 17 meetings in just one day. She stood again in the seat at the 1924 UK general election, but fell to only 31.7% of the vote.