Adela (von Gans) Wetzlar-Coit (1863-1932)

She was a Humanist, Suffragist, and the only woman elected to the Royal Institution in 1898. She joined the International Women's Suffrage Alliance at its formation in Berlin in 1904. She was its first Treasurer and one of the leading figures in the movement. Her obituary stated: "Mrs. Coit was one of the real workers and with her graceful manners and clear head helped to solve many difficult problems of the Board". On behalf of her second husband, she paid £1,000 to purchase the Ethical Church which became home to one of largest ethical societies in Britain. She joined the Women's Social and Political Union in 1907, later moving to become a member of the Women's Tax Resistance League. In 1911 she held a meeting for the Women’s Tax Resistance League, going on to become a member of the first Election Fighting Fund Committee of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies. From 1913 she was also a member of the executive committee of the London Society for Women's Suffrage. In addition to all this, she supported her questionable husband in his endeavours and encouraged his involvement with feminist work. Harry Snell recalled her as a friend who, "represented in her life a quiet, almost unseen, yet potent influence", and who "helped both to create and to sustain in others the spirit of virtue and loyalty." She was the mother of four children (three by her first husband, one by her second) and lived between London and Sussex.