Jacob Bright (1821–99)

Politician and social reformer. Younger brother of John Bright (1811–89). Member of a Quaker cotton-manufacturing family; moved to Manchester in the late 1850s. MP for Manchester, 1867–74, 1876–85; MP for Manchester south-west, 1886–95. Chaired the first meeting of the Manchester Society for Women’s Suffrage, 1867; leader of the suffragists in Parliament from 1868. Introduced the first women’s suffrage bill in 1870. Member of the Privy Council, 1894.