Samuel Edger (c.1823–1882) was a New Zealand non-denominational minister, writer, social reformer and community worker. He was born in

East Grinstead East Grinstead is a town in West Sussex, England, near the East Sussex, Surrey, and Kent borders, south of London, northeast of Brighton, and northeast of the county town of Chichester. Situated in the extreme northeast of the county, the civ ...

Sussex Sussex (), from the Old English (), is a historic county in South East England that was formerly an independent medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom. It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English ...

, England on c.1823. His daughter was Kate Edger. Edger emigrated from London in 1862. In June 1871 he wrote: “it is one of woman’s rights...that she should enjoy an education as thorough in quality as that which is thought necessary for men." He was one of those who inspired feminist writer,

Ellen Elizabeth Ellis Ellen Elizabeth Ellis (; 14 March 1829 – 17 April 1895) was a New Zealand feminist and writer. She was born in England and moved to New Zealand in 1859. Early life Ellen Elizabeth Colebrook was baptised on 3 May 1829 at Holy Trinity Churc ...

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