Florence Eveleen Eleanore Bell, Lady Bell (1851–1930) by unknown photographer courtesy of Middlesbrough Libraries & Information
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Angela V. John
Bell [née Olliffe], Florence Eveleen Eleanore, Lady Bell (1851–1930), author, social investigator, and playwright, was born on 9 September 1851 at 2 rue St Florentin, Paris, the youngest of the four children of Sir Joseph Olliffe (1808–1869), physician to the British embassy in ...
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John S. Peart-Binns
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Reckitt, Maurice Benington (1888–1980), writer and Christian sociologist, was born in Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, on 19 June 1888, the eldest of the three children and elder son of Arthur Benington Reckitt and his wife, Helen Annie Thomas. His parents' influence on his character was both creditable and corrosive. ...
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Anthony Terrell Seward Sampson (1926–2004) by Godfrey Argent, 1969 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Sampson, Anthony Terrell Seward (1926–2004), journalist and author, was born at 19 Mill Lane, Billingham-on-Tees, co. Durham, on 3 August 1926, the only son of Michael Trevisky Sampson, chief scientist at the ICI ammonia works in Billingham, and his wife, Phyllis, née Seward...
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Joyce Avrech Berkman
Schreiner, Olive Emilie Albertina (1855–1920), author and social theorist, was born on 24 March 1855 at Wittebergen Wesleyan mission station, on the border of Basutoland, Cape Colony, the ninth of the twelve children of Rebecca Lyndall (1818–1903) of London and her husband, Gottlob Schreiner (1814–1876)...
