Ellen Ballance

Ellen Ballance (née Anderson; 1846 – 14 June 1935) was a New Zealand suffragist and community leader. She was a vice-president of the Women's Progressive Society, an international suffrage organisation based in London, and the inaugural president of the Wanganui Women's Franchise League in 1893.

Ellen Ballance
Ballance, c.1930
Spouse of the Prime Minister of New Zealand
In role
24 January 1891  27 April 1893
Preceded byAnn Elizabeth Atkinson
Succeeded byLouisa Jane Seddon
Personal details
Born
Ellen Anderson

1846 (1846)
Wellington, New Zealand
Died14 June 1935(1935-06-14) (aged 88–89)
Wanganui, New Zealand
Spouse
(m. 1870; died 1893)
Children1
Occupation
  • Suffragist
  • community leader
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