Sophia Chichester (original) (raw)

Sophia Chichester (née Ford; 1795–1847) was a patron of religious and political unorthodoxy. She supported the work of reformers including Robert Owen and Richard Carlile, and was president of the British and Foreign Society for the Promotion of Humanity and Abstinence from Animal Food. Along with her sister, Georgina Welch, she has been described as 'a unique case of upper-class female radicalism in early Victorian England.'