Arnold, Ethel Margaret (bap. 1865–1930), journalist, author, and lecturer on female suffrage, was born at Harborne, Staffordshire. No birth certificate has been found. She was baptized at Chaddesley Corbet, Worcestershire, on 26 May 1865, the fourth daughter of Thomas Arnold (1823–1900), teacher and English scholar, and his wife, ...
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Chappellsmith [née Reynolds], Margaret (1806–1883), socialist lecturer, was born on 27 February 1806 in Church Row, Aldgate, London, where she was baptized at St Botolph on 4 June 1806, the daughter of John Reynolds, a bookseller, and his wife Sarah. She had at least three sisters and two brothers. She was a staunch Baptist until her early adulthood, when a friend of her sister's introduced her to the ideas of ...
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Stephen Roberts
Cooper, Thomas (1805–1892), Chartist and religious lecturer, was born on 20 March 1805 in Leicester, the illegitimate son of a dyer. His mother continued working as a dyer after the early death of Cooper's father, which indicates that the relationship was more than transitory. Living in ...
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Sandra Stanley Holton
Craigen, Jessie Hannah (1834/5–1899), public speaker, was the daughter of a Scottish sea captain and an Italian actress, names unknown. Though she once remarked that her childhood was spent in London, she also variously claimed roots in Scotland and the north of England...
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Detrosier, Rowland [formerly Rowley Barnes] (1800
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Edith Oldham Ellis (1861–1916), by unknown photographer, 1914
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Ellis [née Lees], Edith Mary Oldham (1861–1916), writer, lecturer, and socialist, was born at Clayton Bridge, Newton, Lancashire, on 9 March 1861, the only child of Samuel Oldham Lees (1832–1879), landowner, and his wife Mary Laetitia, née Bancroft (...
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John Thelwall (1764–1834) attrib. John Hazlitt, c. 1800–05 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Thelwall, John (1764–1834), political reformer and lecturer, was born on 27 July 1764 at Chandos Street, Covent Garden, the son of Joseph Thelwall (1731–1776), a silk mercer, and his wife, Mary, née Arnold (d. 1795). He was a sickly child, suffering from asthma and a tendency to stammer. After his father's death his mother continued the silk business, and in 1777 ...
