Janet LivingstoneJanet Livingstone was a Scottish non-conformist and Presbyterian activist.FamilyLivingstone was born in 1643 in Scotland. She was the daughter of John Livingstone, a Scottish Presbyterian minister and refugee in Rotterdam, and his wife Janet Fleming. She had three brothers: James, William and Robert. She married a Scottish merchant named Andrew Russell.ActivismIn June 1674, she was among a deputation of women, mostly the wives and widows of Presbyterian ministers, who petitioned the Scottish Privy Council as religious toleration had ended. For her participation in the protest, she was banished from Edinburgh.DeathShe died in 1696.