{{Short description|Irish suffragist (died 1927)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}} {{Use Irish English|date=June 2020}}

'''Sarah Henrietta Persse''' (10 March 1866 – 14 April 1927) was an Irish suffragist.

Persse was a member of the Persse Distillery family of Galway, and a relation of Lady Gregory. She was born and lived in Glenarde, Galway. Her parents were Henry Sadleir Persse (1838–1900),<ref>{{Cite news |date=1927-04-18 |title=Connaught |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/irish-independent-connaught/171276455/ |access-date=2025-04-28 |work=Irish Independent |pages=8 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> manager of the distillery at Nun's Island, and Eleanor Alice Seymour Persse. Persse was the third eldest of ten children. In 1899 she was one of two women candidates in the west and south ward of Galway's Poor Law Unions. She withdrew from consideration as a Poor Law Guardian a day before the elections owing to the death of her father in 1900, and did not contest any future election. When her brother and his family moved into the Persse family home, she settled in London. She died there in 1927.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Sarah Persse: Pioneering woman candidate withdrew from politics before polling day|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/sarah-persse-pioneering-woman-candidate-withdrew-from-politics-before-polling-day-1.3718570|last=Clancy|first=Mary|date=10 December 2018|newspaper=The Irish Times|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-05-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Clancy |first1=Mary |editor1-last=Moran |editor1-first=Gerard |editor2-last=Gillespie |editor2-first=Raymond |editor3-last=Nolan |editor3-first=William |title=Galway History & Society: Interdisciplinary Essays on the History of an Irish County |date=1996 |publisher=Geography Publications |location=Dublin |isbn=0906602750 |pages=557–587 |chapter=The Western Outpost: Local Government and Women's Suffrage in County Galway 1898-1918}}</ref>

==See also== * Emily Anderson * Mary Donovan O'Sullivan * Florence Moon * Mary Fleetwood Berry

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