BEAR-CRAWFORD, ANNETTE ELLEN (1853-1899), feminist, was born in East Melbourne,
eldest daughter of John Pinney Bear and his wife Annette Eliza, née Williams. Bear
had come to Victoria from Devon, England, in 1841 and joined his father in a
prosperous stock and station agency, which he sold about 1857 before going back to
England. The family returned to Victoria in 1860 and Bear established the Tabilk
(Chateau Tahbilk) vineyard on the Goulburn River. He was a member of the
Legislative Council for Southern Province from 1863 until 1878 when he retired,
settling in England for ten years. He died at Tabilk vineyard on 27 October
1889.
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Annette Bear-Crawford was born in Melbourne but trained in social work in England. There she became involved in the women's movement and the National Vigilance Committee. She returned to Melbourne in 1890 and became a leading figure in the women's movement in Australia, joining the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and forming the Victorian Women's Suffrage League.
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