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She died, age 83, on 8 September 1948. In
October 2019, Newcastle City Council erected a plaque in her memory on the house in Hotspur Street, in which she and her husband lived for around twenty years. It reads "Florence Nightingale Harrison Bell (1865-1948). Socialist, suffragist, tireless
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Isabella Tait. At her baptism on 17 December at St. Andrew Newcastle she was recorded as Florence Harrison, her father was recorded as Thomas Latham Harrison (gentleman). After that she adopted the name
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Society for Women's Suffrage. In 1909, she stood down from the position, and the following year she became secretary of the local branch of the
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campaigner for healthcare, women's and children's rights. First
Federal Secretary of the Independent Labour Party. Lived here 1901-1920." Only the second plaque to a woman in Newcastle (the first was
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