Grace Paterson
{{Short description|Scottish suffragist (1843–1925)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Grace Paterson
| image = Grace_Paterson,_Glasgow.jpg
| birth_date = 1843
| birth_place = Glasgow
| death_date = 1925
| death_place = Edinburgh
| known for = School board member, temperance activist, suffragist, and founder of the Glasgow School of Cookery
| parents = Georgina Smith and William Paterson
}}
Grace Chalmers Paterson was a campaigner, suffragist, temperance activist and educationalist.
Early life
Paterson was born in Glasgow to Georgina Smith and William Paterson, a merchant.
Domestic education
She campaigned for the improvement of domestic education for working class girls. She was a friend and supporter of Janet Galloway and Christian Guthrie Wright, founder of the Edinburgh School of Cookery.{{cite book |last1=Davidson |first1=Julie |title=Paterson, Grace Chalmers in The New Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women |date=2018 |isbn=9781474436281 |page=348}}
She was one of the first women elected to a school board in Glasgow, in 1885. She also founded the Glasgow school of cookery, alongside Margaret Black.{{cite web |url=https://theglasgowstory.com/story/?id=TGSDH |website=The Glasgow Story |access-date=16 January 2019|title=TheGlasgowStory: 1830s to 1914: Personalities }} She was the "driving force" behind this institution.{{cite web |title=Records of the Glasgow School of Cookery, teacher training school, Glasgow, Scotland |url=https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/489ca9b8-81b9-3a18-94e0-ba4146a5f465 |website=JISC Archives Hub |access-date=16 January 2019}} She was involved in the temperance movement in Scotland.
Women's Suffrage
She was a founder member of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women's Suffrage.{{cite book|last1=King|first1=Elspeth|title=Papers on the Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women's Suffrage|date=1978|publisher=People's Palace Museum|location=Glasgow|page=11}} She joined the WSPU in 1907.
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Category:Scottish women's rights activists
Category:People associated with Glasgow
Category:Women's Social and Political Union
Category:Scottish temperance activists
Category:19th-century Scottish women educators
Category:20th-century Scottish women
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