Some of the leaders in the early days of the British suffrage movement were Dr. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Lydia Becker, Emily Davies, and Barbara Bodichon; In the House of Commons in 1870 Jacob Bright presented a bill for woman suffrage, and In 1881 the Isle of Man granted the vote to women who owned property. In 1897 Local British society united into the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies.