Cook, Ida [pseud. Mary Burchell] (1904–1986), author and campaigner for Jewish refugees, was born on 24 August 1904 at 37 Croft Avenue, Sunderland, the second of four children of William James Cook (1865–1959), surveyor of customs and excise, and his wife, Mary, ...
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Cook, Ida [pseud. Mary Burchell] (1904–1986), author and campaigner for Jewish refugees
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Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret, Lady Mitchison (1897–1999)
Maker: Wyndham Lewis
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Naomi Mary Margaret Mitchison, Lady Mitchison (1897–1999) by Wyndham Lewis, 1938 © Wyndham Lewis Memorial Trust
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Mitchison [née Haldane], Naomi Mary Margaret, Lady Mitchison (1897–1999), writer and social activist
Elizabeth Maslen
Mitchison [née Haldane], Naomi Mary Margaret, Lady Mitchison (1897–1999), writer and social activist, was born on 1 November 1897 at 10 Randolph Crescent, Edinburgh, the younger child of John Scott Haldane (1860–1936), physiologist, and his wife, (Louisa) Kathleen (1863–1961), an active suffragist, daughter of ...
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Nevinson, Henry Woodd (1856–1941), social activist and journalist
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Nevinson, Henry Woodd (1856–1941), social activist and journalist, was born at 5 South Fields Place, Leicester, on 11 October 1856, the second son of George Nevinson, a solicitor, and his wife, Maria Jane, née Woodd, who raised him in a strictly evangelical atmosphere. In 1872 he won a scholarship at ...
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Nevinson, Henry Woodd (1856–1941)
Maker: Sir William Rothenstein
Henry Woodd Nevinson (1856–1941) by Sir William Rothenstein, 1924 © Estate of Sir William Rothenstein / National Portrait Gallery, London
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Sheepshanks, Mary Ryott (1872–1960), educationist, feminist, and internationalist
Sybil Oldfield
Sheepshanks, Mary Ryott (1872–1960), educationist, feminist, and internationalist, was born on 25 October 1872 at Bilton vicarage, near Harrogate, Yorkshire, the second of the thirteen surviving children of John Sheepshanks (1834–1912), later bishop of Norwich, and his wife, Margaret Ryott (1852–1943), a descendant of ...
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Wilson, Paulette Marjorie (1956–2020), victim of injustice and migrant rights campaigner
Sarah Moorhouse
Wilson, Paulette Marjorie (1956–2020), victim of injustice and migrant rights campaigner, was born in Jamaica on 20 March 1956. In 1968, the year that the Conservative MP Enoch Powell delivered his infamous ‘rivers of blood’ speech in Birmingham, she was sent to live with her grandparents in ...
