Emily Murphy

Overview

Emily Murphy (née Emily Gowan Ferguson) born Cookstown, Ontario, Canada March 14, 1868 (d. 1933). Canadian jurist; lifelong pacifist; first woman judge in British empire. One of "Famous Five" women who won legal right of woman as a person, 1929. Opposed WWII as caused by over-population; opposed Boer War; witness to dawn of WWI.

Quotations

"There were many tear-stained faces and hearts that ached, too, for these tough-fibered sons of Mars, led like sheep to slaughter, for it will be a mere handful who come home again." (Christine Mander, Emily Murphy: Rebel, p. 51; photo Wikipedia)