Macclesfield Women's Suffrage Union was a group of women in the northern English town of Macclesfield who campaigned for women's suffrage in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

History edit

 
Lydia Becker, pioneer of women's suffrage in Britain

On 24 March 1877 Lydia Becker and Alice Cliff Scatcherd came to Macclesfield to address a meeting of women and men interested in the campaign for women's suffrage.[1]

References edit

  1. ^ "No. 86". Women's Suffrage Journal. 8: 49. 1877.