Alice Low (suffragist)

Alice Low
Born1877
Whitsome, Berwickshire
Died1954 (aged 7677)
OrganizationNUWSS QMAAC
Known forSuffragist, Senior Controller Queen Alexandra's Women's Army Corps, Public Speaker
Movementwomen's rights

Alice Low, OBE (1877–1954) was a British suffragist, who spoke up for peaceful means of achieving women's rights to vote, and fairer laws, including reducing sweated labour. She was a leader in Edinburgh and Berwickshire National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) and a touring speaker (with Dr Elsie Inglis and Chrystal MacMillan, Millicent Fawcett and others) in the early twentieth century. She was also a lead member of Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps. (QMAAC) in World War One (and continued its fellowship) and an amateur actress taking lead roles with the British Empire Shakespeare Society.