Alice Caine


Alice Caine was an English temperance leader. She served as president of the Women's Total Abstinence Union, the Liverpool Ladies' Temperance Association, and the Deaconesses' National Total Abstinence League.

Early life and education

Alice Brown was born in Liverpool, England, 21 February 1849. A daughter of Alice Chibnal Brown and the Baptist preacher, the Rev. Hugh Stowell Brown, she developed a sympathy with the temperance movement. Caine had six younger siblings, Robert, Hugh, John, Dora, Bertha, and Eleanor. Her father's second wife was her sister in law, Phoebe Caine.
She was educated privately in Liverpool.

Career

In 1868, she married William Sproston Caine, a prominent iron merchant and active temperance leader, and afterward Member of Parliament.
Caine was introduced and spoke briefly at the Third Biennial Convention and Executive Committee Meetings of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union in London in June 1895, where she represented the Girls' Guild of Good Life.
She was affiliated with a number of temperance organizations, becoming president of the Women's Total Abstinence Union, and also of the Auxiliary of the Free Church Council. Caine was also an active member of the Committee of the Young Abstainers' Union, besides holding membership and official relations in various other subordinate organizations. Caine served as president of Deaconesses' National Total Abstinence League, federated to the Women's Total Abstinence Union. One of her most responsible positions was that of treasurer of the Anglo-Indian Temperance Association, of which her husband was the founder and she assumed that additional office after his death in 1903.

Personal life

Mr. and Mrs. Caine had five children:
Alice Brown Caine died in London, 28 January 1918. A memorial service was held in her honour at Wheatsheaf Hall on 10 February 1918.