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K. W. Sheppard

Signed family name
Sheppard
Signed given name
K. W.
Given address
Riccarton
Sheet number
1
Town/Suburb
Riccarton
City/Region
Christchurch
Notes

Full name is Katherine (born 'Catherine') Wilson Sheppard.

Kate Sheppard, the head of the franchise and legislation department of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, became the most prominent leader of the suffrage campaign.

A biography of Kate Sheppard (1847–1934) appears in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography (a concise version of this essay is available here).

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Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.