Lady Anna Eliza Mary Gore-Langton, ''née'' Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (February 1820 – 3 February 1879) was an English campaigner for

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Life

Lady Anna Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville was born in February 1820 to Richard, Earl Temple (later Duke of Buckingham and Chandos), and his wife, the former Lady Mary Campbell, at the ancestral seat of

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. Lady Anna's father spent a vast inheritance and was declared a bankrupt. The contents of Stowe House were sold in 1848. Her parents obtained a divorce by

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in 1850. She avoided the sale and divorce as she married in 1846 and went to live at

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. Her husband William Gore-Langton was a member of parliament. She worked with the Women's Printing Society and she was in the vanguard of improving women's education. She sat on the committee in 1871 that was ensuring that women could become doctors in Edinburgh. In 1872 she was elected president of the

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. She had signed the Mill's petition for universal women's suffrage six years before. In June 1877 she and others were allowed to petition

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, the

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, concerning a bill to allow women the vote. The bill was presented by

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, but it was defeated. Gore-Langton called a meeting to discuss a way forward given the large defeat at her house. Gore-Langton died in

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on 3 February 1879.Elizabeth Crawford, ‘Langton, Lady Anna Eliza Mary Gore- (1820–1879)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gore-Langton, Anna British women's rights activists 1820 births 1879 deaths People from Buckinghamshire (before 1974) National Society for Women's Suffrage Daughters of British dukes English suffragists