Nessie Stewart Brown

Nessie Stewart-Brown JP (née Muspratt; 5 September 1864 – 7 April 1958) was a British suffragist and Liberal Party politician. Her name and picture is on the plinth of the statue of Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square.

Background Nessie Muspratt was born at Seaforth Hall, Seaforth, near Liverpool, a daughter of Frances Jane Baines and Edmund Knowles Muspratt of Muspratt & Co. Chemical Works, later the United Alkali Company Ltd. The Muspratt family were supporters of the Liberal Party and she was an elder She was also an aunt of Nelia Penman, who served as President of the Women's Liberal Federation. She was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College, Liverpool University, Paris and Leipzig. She married Egerton Stewart-Brown in Sefton Church on 13 September 1888. In the same year she was elected to the national executive committee of the Women's Liberal Federation, a body on which she served for many years. In 1894 she co-founded the Liverpool Women's Suffrage Society (local branch of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies NUWSS) with Mrs Alfred Booth and Edith Bright, at a meeting at which Millicent Fawcett was the guest speaker. She became its branch chairman. She became President of the Waterloo Women's Liberal Association.

Posthumous recognition She died in 1958 aged 93. Her name and picture (and those of 58 other women's suffrage supporters) are on the plinth of the statue of Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square, London, unveiled in April 2018.