Billington-Greig, Teresa (1877–1964)

English suffragette, socialist, and writer. Moving away from the militant branch of the suffragette movement led by Emmeline Pankhurst, she founded the Women's Freedom League in 1907 with Charlotte Despard and Edith How-Martyn. Though an ardent suffragette, twice imprisoned for her activities, she disapproved of the use of violence, as indicated in her critique The Militant Suffrage Movement (1911).

Billington was born in Blackburn, Lancashire, and educated at a convent school, later taking Manchester University extension classes. A teacher and member of the Independent Labour Party, she was secretary of the Manchester Equal Pay League, and met Pankhurst when her job was threatened for refusing to teach religious instruction. She joined Pankhurst's Women's Social and Political Union in 1903 and became its London organizer in 1907.