Elizabeth Leslie Rous Comstock

Elizabeth Leslie Rous Comstock (born October 30, 1815, Maidenhead, Berkshire, England—died August 3, 1891, Union Springs, New York, U.S.) was an Anglo-American Quaker minister and social reformer, an articulate abolitionist and an influential worker for social welfare who helped adjust the perspective of the Society of Friends to the changes wrought by the urban-industrial age. Elizabeth Rous was educated in Quaker schools in Islington and Croydon and subsequently taught in the Quaker schools in Croydon...