Reynolds, Rachel Selina (1838–1928)
Reynolds, Rachel Selina (1838–1928)
New Zealand social worker, suffragist, community leader, and memoirist. Name variations: Rachel Selina Pinkerton. Born Rachel Selina Pinkerton, Dec 19, 1838, in South Australia; died Aug 21, 1928, in Dunedin, New Zealand; dau. of William Pinkerton and Eleanor (Smith) Pinkerton; m. William Hunter Reynolds (merchant), 1856; children: 5 daughters, 4 sons.
Active in numerous social-welfare organizations, helped found St Andrew's Church and established groups to assist the disadvantaged (late 1880s); served as president of Dunedin Free Kindergarten Association (1889); elected vice president of women's franchise league (1892).
See also memoir, Pioneering in Australia and New Zealand (1929) and Dictionary of New Zealand Biography (Vol. 2).
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