Lydia Becker

Lydia Becker
Portrait by fellow suffragist Susan Isabel Dacre
Born	Lydia Ernestine Becker 24 February 1827[citation needed] Cooper Street, Deansgate, Manchester, Lancashire, England
Died	18 July 1890 (aged 63) Geneva, Switzerland
Resting place	Cimetière de Saint-Georges
Nationality	English

Lydia Ernestine Becker (24 February 1827 – 18 July 1890) was a leader in the early British suffrage movement, as well as an amateur scientist with interests in biology and astronomy. She established Manchester as a centre for the suffrage movement and with Richard Pankhurst she arranged for the first woman to vote in a British election and a court case was unsuccessfully brought to exploit the precedent. Becker is also remembered for founding and publishing the Women's Suffrage Journal between 1870 and 1890.