Aves, Dame Geraldine Maitland (1898–1986), civil servant and social reformer, was born on 22 August 1898 at Jay's Hatch, a gamekeeper's cottage in a wood near the village of Bovenden, Hertfordshire, because her mother wanted her first child to be born in the depths of the country. She was the elder daughter (there were no sons) of ...
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Aves, Dame Geraldine Maitland (1898–1986), civil servant and social reformer
Phyllis Willmott
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Baines [née Hunt], Sarah Jane [Jennie] (1866–1951), suffragette and social reformer
Judith Smart
Baines [née Hunt], Sarah Jane [Jennie] (1866–1951), suffragette and social reformer, was born on 30 November 1866 in Birmingham, the daughter of James Edward Hunt, gun maker, and his wife, Sarah Ann, née Hunt. She started work in a Birmingham small arms factory aged eleven and at fourteen was assisting her parents in ...
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Buxton [née Jebb], Dorothy Frances (1881–1963), humanitarian and social activist
Sybil Oldfield
Buxton [née Jebb], Dorothy Frances (1881–1963), humanitarian and social activist, was born on 3 March 1881 at The Lyth, Ellesmere, Shropshire, the youngest daughter of Arthur Trevor Jebb (1839–1894), barrister and philanthropic squire, and his wife, Eglantyne Louisa Jebb (1845–1925), community worker and poet, the sister of ...
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Chadwick, Sir Edwin (1800–1890)
Maker: unknown engraver
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Sir Edwin Chadwick (1800–1890) by unknown engraver, pubd 1889 (after Mayall & Co.) © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Chadwick, Sir Edwin (1800–1890), social reformer and civil servant
Peter Mandler
Chadwick, Sir Edwin (1800–1890), social reformer and civil servant, was born at Longsight, near Manchester, on 24 January 1800. Surprisingly little is known of his early life, and of his mother nothing, except that she died in the infancy of her only son. His father, ...
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Cooper, Ivan Averill (1944–2019), civil rights leader and politician
Connal Parr
Cooper, Ivan Averill (1944–2019), civil rights leader and politician, was born on 5 January 1944, in the hamlet of Killaloo, outside Derry, the sixth of seven children of Robert Henry Cooper, a Post Office worker and supervisor for Derry city council, and his wife, ...
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Greening, Edward Owen (1836–1923), co-operative movement activist and social reformer
John Saville
Greening, Edward Owen (1836–1923), co-operative movement activist and social reformer, was born on 17 August 1836 at Warrington, Lancashire. His father owned a small wire-drawing factory, and the family moved to Manchester in Edward's early years. There he attended the Quaker school in ...
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Grubb, Edward (1854–1939), pacifist and social reformer
Thomas C. Kennedy
Grubb, Edward (1854–1939), pacifist and social reformer, was born on 19 October 1854 at Sudbury, Suffolk, the fourth of five children of Jonathan Grubb (1808–1894), banker and Quaker minister, and his second wife, Elizabeth Burlingham (1813–1893). The father was of Irish descent but lived his adult life in ...
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Hastings, George Woodyatt (1825–1917), social reformer and politician
Lawrence Goldman
Hastings, George Woodyatt (1825–1917), social reformer and politician, was born on 28 September 1825 at 43 Foregate Street, Worcester, the second of three children, and the only son, of Sir Charles Hastings (1794–1866), physician and founder of the British Medical Association (BMA), and his wife, ...
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Herzen, Alexander [Aleksandr Ivanovich Gertsen] (1812–1870), radical publicist
Patrick Waddington
Herzen, Alexander [Aleksandr Ivanovich Gertsen] (1812–1870), radical publicist, was born at what is now 25 Tverskoy bulvar, Moscow, on 25 March 1812 os (6 April 1812 ns), the illegitimate son of the rich nobleman Ivan Alekseyevich Yakovlev (1767–1846) and his young German consort, ...
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Keynes [née Brown], Florence Ada (1861–1958), social and political activist
Rita McWilliams Tullberg
Keynes [née Brown], Florence Ada (1861–1958), social and political activist, was born on 10 March 1861 at 76 Elizabeth Street, Cheetham, Manchester, the eldest of the three daughters and three sons of Dr John Brown (1830–1922), Congregationalist minister, and his wife, Ada Haydon, ...
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King, Samuel Beaver [Sam] (1926–2016), community activist and founder of the Windrush Foundation
Stephen Bourne
King, Samuel Beaver [Sam] (1926–2016), community activist and founder of the Windrush Foundation, was born on 20 February 1926 at Priestmans River, Portland, Jamaica, the son of George and Caroline King, farmers. He later said he felt ‘doomed’ to be a farmer, so when he saw an advertisement in the ...
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Ludlow, John Malcolm Forbes (1821–1911)
Maker: E. Braconnier
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John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow (1821–1911) by E. Braconnier © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Ludlow, John Malcolm Forbes (1821–1911), lawyer and social activist
E. R. Norman
revised by H. C. G. Matthew
Ludlow, John Malcolm Forbes (1821–1911), lawyer and social activist, was born in Neemuch, India, on 8 March 1821, the youngest in the family of two sons and three daughters of Lieutenant-Colonel John Ludlow of the East India Company, and his wife, Maria Jane...
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Luthuli, Albert John (1898?–1967)
Maker: Neville Lewis
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Albert John Luthuli (1898?–1967) by Neville Lewis, 1962 © reserved; private collection; photograph National Portrait Gallery, London
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Luthuli, Albert John (1898?–1967), human rights campaigner and president-general of the African National Congress
Anne Yates
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Luthuli, Albert John (1898
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McLaren [née Müller], Eva Maria (1852/3–1921), social reformer and political activist
Linda Walker
McLaren [née Müller], Eva Maria (1852/3–1921), social reformer and political activist, was the younger daughter of William Müller, a wealthy German businessman, and an English mother, Maria Henrietta. She spent her early life in Valparaíso, Chile, and was educated by a governess and at school in ...
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Merryweather, Mary (1818–1880), social reformer and lady superintendent of nursing in Liverpool and London
Stuart Wildman
Merryweather, Mary (1818–1880), social reformer and lady superintendent of nursing in Liverpool and London, was born at Longham in the parish of Hampreston, Dorset, on 8 January 1818, one of four children (three daughters and one son) of Samuel Merryweather (1790–1874), a miller and maltster, and his wife, ...
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Neilans, Alison Roberta Noble (1884–1942)
Maker: unknown photographer
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Alison Roberta Noble Neilans (1884–1942) by unknown photographer, 1908 Mary Evans/The Women's Library
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Neilans, Alison Roberta Noble (1884–1942), suffragist and social reformer
Julia Ann Laite
Neilans, Alison Roberta Noble (1884–1942), suffragist and social reformer, was born at Ellesmere, Friern Road, East Dulwich, Surrey, on 19 June 1884, the only daughter of Robert Neilans (1843–c.1896), a commercial traveller, and his wife, Alison Ferguson, née Noble (b...
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