Sara Susan Nolan

Sara Susan Nolan (25 December 1843 – 6 March 1927) was an English born temperance reformer in Sydney, Australia. She had joined the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in Brisbane but it was in Sydney that she became branch and later state and national President from 1906 to 1912.

Life Nolan was born in the Deansgate area of Manchester on Christmas Day in 1843. In 1849 she and her parents emigrated to Australia. Nolan supported the idea that women should gain the influence of having a vote but, in her opinion, this was to allow them to elect the best men.

Nolan died in Burwood and seven of her children were still alive. Her son Howard Nolan was a leading Methodist minister and another child Percy Nolan would become the three times Mayor of Manly in the 1930s.