Sarah Rowell Wright

Sarah Rowell Wright (1862–1930) was a Canadian temperance reformer, newspaper editor, and suffragist. She served as President of the Dominion Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), President of the Woman's Missionary Society of the Methodist Church (London Conference branch), vice-president, National Suffrage Association, and vice-president of the Canadian Social Service Council.

Early life and education Sarah Alice Rowell was born in London, Ontario, on October 4, 1862. she was made president, being successively re-elected to-that office until till her death. In the latter capacity, she led the fight for temperance reform in Canada, the Union having been influential in securing War-time Prohibition. Her brother, the Hon. Newton Rowell, then president of the Privy Council and acting president of the Dominion War Cabinet, also had a leading part in securing War Prohibition.

During World War I, she was an officer of the Ontario Red Cross. of Columbus, Ohio, in 1884.

They had four sons: Edward, Douglas, Newton, John.

Selected works As Sarah Rowell Wright "What the world owes to Susannah Wesley", Methodist Magazine and Review (1903)

As Sara Rowell Wright "World Progress and The Drink Question", The Standard (1930)