Edward Charles Stirling had four daughters, he introduced a formal bill for women's suffrage and he was chairman of the South Australian Museum committee.
Sir Edward Charles Stirling CMG FRS FRCS (8 September 1848  20 March 1919) was an Australian anthropologist and the first professor of physiology at the University of Adelaide. He was chairman of the South Australian Museum committee in 18845 and in 1889 became honorary director of the museum. Then in 1886 he introduced a formal bill for women's suffrage into the South Australian parliament. By this time he had four daughters of his own, and he wanted them to grow up in a fairer society. 
