Sophia Singh

Princess Sophia Alexandra Duleep Singh (8 August 1876 – 22 August 1948) was a prominent suffragette and accredited nurse in the United Kingdom. Her father was Maharaja Duleep Singh, who had been taken from his kingdom of Punjab to the British Raj owing to political manoeuvring by Governor-General Dalhousie in India, and was subsequently exiled to England. Sophias mother was Maharani Bamba Müller, and her godmother was Queen Victoria. She had four sisters, including two stepsisters, and four brothers. She lived in Hampton Court in an apartment in Faraday House given to her by Queen Victoria as a grace and favour.During the early twentieth century, Singh was one of several South Asian women who pioneered the cause of womens rights in Britain. Although she is best remembered for her leading role in the Womens Tax Resistance League, she also participated in other womens suffrage groups, including the Womens Social and Political Union.

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