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Isabella Wilson Legge (16 August 1812 to 27 May 1884) was a Chartist from Aberdeenshire in Scotland who campaigned for votes for women and the right to vote to be extended to all adults. gh

Biography
Isabella Wilson was born in Aberdeenshire on 16 August 1812, the seventh of eight children. She was baptised in Skene, a small farming community. Her mother was Janet Pirie, a crofter, while her father, John Wilson, was a crofter and auctioneer.

Around 1835, she met and married a stonemason and chartist named John Legge. After their marriage, the newlyweds moved to Aberdeen, where she founded the Aberdeen Female Radical Union circa 1839. This was a Chartist organisation and the 18 women members she presided over would meet regularly in the Temperance Hotel at 41 Queen Street.

Later life and death
Legge was widowed in 1872 and died in her home in Balmoral Place, Aberdeen on 27 May 1884 of apoplexy.