Sara Helen Biggs (Helen) (Biggs) Taylor (1834–1929)

Suffragist. Born in Leicester, second daughter of Thomas Biggs, merchant, and Elizabeth Biggs. Married Thomas Taylor (1808/9–92) of Wigan, Lancashire, owner of a cotton-spinning business (Thomas Taylor and Brother), in 1857. A supporter of women’s suffrage; campaigned on behalf of the pit-brow women workers of Wigan, 1859–66, and canvassed for the re-election of John Stuart Mill in 1868. Lived in Hyde Park Gardens, London, and Aston Rowant, Oxfordshire. Mother of Mabel Mary and Beatrice Katherine Taylor. Author of Soups, savouries and sweets, with a chapter on breads, by a practical housewife (1889).