Mary Merryweather
Gender: Female
Born: 1813
Died: 1880
Education: St Thomas' Hospital Nursing School
Occupation: Nursing
1866 Petition: Yes
Petition Area: Dover Street, Liverpool, Lancashire, England
Other sources: https://www.parliament.uk/1866
Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866?1928 (2001); Leah Leneman, A Guid Cause: The Women's Suffrage Movement in Scotland (1991)
Additional Information: Aside from signing the 1866 petition, Mary had some shares in the English Woman's Journal.
Other Suffrage Activities: Mary was a Quaker and opened a day nursery and night school for women working at the silk factory owned by the Courtauld family at their request. After training as a nurse, she founded a training school for nurses in 1862 in Liverpool, where she signed the 1866 petition. In 1867, she was a member of the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women, and was a member of the governing council of the London School of Medicine for Women.