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Elizabeth Leslie Rous Comstock

Anglo-American minister and social reformer
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Née:
Elizabeth Leslie Rous
Born:
October 30, 1815, Maidenhead, Berkshire, England
Died:
August 3, 1891, Union Springs, New York, U.S. (aged 75)

Elizabeth Leslie Rous Comstock (born October 30, 1815, Maidenhead, Berkshire, England—died August 3, 1891, Union Springs, New York, U.S.) was an Anglo-American Quaker minister and social reformer, an articulate abolitionist and an influential worker for social welfare who helped adjust the perspective of the Society of Friends to the changes wrought by the urban-industrial age. Elizabeth Rous was educated in Quaker schools in Islington and Croydon and subsequently taught in the Quaker schools in Croydon and Ackworth. In 1848 she married Leslie Wright, who died three years later. She kept a shop in Bakewell, Derbyshire, until 1854, when she immigrated ...(100 of 286 words)

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