Rose Dolton was a pioneer of the womens movement, a leader in the British Temperance Movement, on the Board of Guardians of the Workhouse making radical changes, a circuit Stewad for the Wesleyan Methodist Church, a Soprano and a very staunch Passive Resister refusing to pay taxes towards the Education act.

She with Miss Talbot and Miss Henry boarded children out did away with pauper nursing and put the Infirmary in decent order. They did not "damn the woman who came to the board with her love child". Only female circuit steward of the Wesleyan Methodist Church and staunch member of the temperence movement. Newbury women's Liberal Association.

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