Isabel Abraham Ross

Ross was born Isabel Abraham in Garston, Liverpool, Lancashire in 1885. Her father was Thomas Fell Abraham, a pharmaceutical chemist who was descended from the founder of the Religious Society of Friends, Margaret Fell. Later in life, Ross wrote a biography of her ancestor, titled Margaret Fell: Mother of Quakerism. Ross' mother was her father's first wife, Margaret Sarah Abraham (). == Education and early activism ==

Ross studied history at the University of Manchester, where she founded the university women's suffrage society. She lived whilst teaching with Nellie Ross, who would become her sister-in-law. == Marriage and life in British East Africa ==

In 1915, she married William McGregor Ross (1876–1940), a civil engineer. They moved to Nairobi in British East Africa in 1917. The organisation was open to white women only. Ross said of the suffrage campaign that: White European settler women were granted the right to vote in 1919. She was president until 1920 and was succeeded by Lady Macmillan. She was also a member of the Education Board of Kenya and played an influential part in Nairobi social life. == Return to England ==

Ross and her family returned to England in 1922. In 1933, Isabel was appointed vice-chair of the British branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). In 1941, then president of the EAWL, Lady Baden-Powell, invited Ross to become an honorary member of the organisation. Ross visited Kenya in 1949 and spoke at an EAWL conference. == Death ==

She died in 1964 in Poole, Dorset, England. == References ==