Background
She was born in County Kilkenny, Ireland in about 1857 as Mary Josephine Crampton.
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Mary Player
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She founded the Women"s Social and Political League in Wellington and was its president for many years. Based on her proposals and through lobbying of William Pember Reeves, the Minister of Labour, the Department of Labour established a women"s branch. Player was from a poor background and struggled to support herself after her husband"s death in 1905.
She died in the Nelson suburb of Atawhai on 5 January 1924 at one of her daughter"s homes.
The coroner ruled that the death was a suicide due to depression. She was buried at Karori Cemetery next to her husband.
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New Zealand