| Grace Paterson | |
| Birth Date: | 1843 |
| Birth Place: | Glasgow |
| Death Date: | 1925 |
| Death Place: | Edinburgh |
| Known For: | School board member, temperance activist, suffragist, and founder of the Glasgow School of Cookery |
| Parents: | Georgina Smith and William Paterson |
Grace Chalmers Paterson was a campaigner, suffragist, temperance activist and educationalist.
Paterson was born in Glasgow to Georgina Smith and William Paterson, a merchant.
She campaigned for the improvement of domestic education for working class girls. She was a friend and supporter of Janet Galloway and Christian Guthrie Wright, founder of the Edinburgh School of Cookery.[1]
She was one of the first women elected to a school board in Glasgow, in 1885. She also founded the Glasgow school of cookery, alongside Margaret Black.[2] She was the "driving force" behind this institution.[3] She was involved in the temperance movement in Scotland.
She was a founder member of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women's Suffrage.[4] She joined the WSPU in 1907.