page_title: Eliza Wigham
section_title: Life as a carer
hierarchical_section_title: Eliza Wigham / Life as a carer
caption_attribution_description: English: Eliza Wigham and her sister Mary Edmundson
context_page_description: Elizabeth Wigham was a leading suffragist and abolitionist in 19th-century Edinburgh, Scotland. She was involved in several major campaigns to improve women's rights in 19th-century Britain, and has been noted as one of the leading citizens of Edinburgh. Her stepmother, Jane Smeal, was a leading activist in Glasgow, and her brother John Richardson Wigham was a prominent lighthouse engineer.
context_section_description: Wigham's father died in 1864, after which Eliza continued to live at her stepmother Jane's house on South Gray Street in Edinburgh. She cared for Jane until the latter died in November 1888 following months of ill health. After her brother's death in 1897, Eliza sold the property to enable her to move to Dublin, where she could in turn be cared for by her relatives.
  Wigham died in Foxrock near Dublin in 1899.
caption: Eliza Wigham and her sister Mary Edmundson
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