Taylor, Elizabeth Best (1868–1941)
Taylor, Elizabeth Best (1868–1941)
New Zealand temperance worker and social reformer. Name variations: Elizabeth Best Ellison. Born Sept 21, 1868, at Lyttelton, New Zealand; died April 27, 1941, in Dunedin; dau. of Robert Best Ellison and Rachel (Robinson) Ellison; m. Thomas Edward Taylor (politician), 1892 (died 1911); children: 6.
Active in New Zealand Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), and in other organizations that focused on issues involving children, women, and world peace; became justice of peace and associate magistrate to Children's Court; one of New Zealand delegates to 1st Pan-Pacific Women's Conference (1928). Received King George V Silver Jubilee Medal (1935).
See also Dictionary of New Zealand Biography (Vol. 3).
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