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Amelia Dyer

1837 - 1896

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Amelia Elizabeth Hobley (1837 – 10 June 1896), popularly dubbed the Ogress of Reading, was an English serial killer who murdered infants in her care over a thirty-year period during the Victorian era. Trained as a nurse and widowed in 1869, she turned to baby farming—the practice of adopting unwanted infants in exchange for money—to support herself. She initially cared for the children legitimately, in addition to having two of her own, but whether intentionally or not a number of them died in her care, leading to a conviction for neglect and six months' hard labour. She then began directly murdering children she "adopted", strangling at least some of them, and disposing of the bodies to avoid attention. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Amelia Dyer is the 197th most popular extremist (down from 190th in 2019), the 2,971st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,599th in 2019) and the 13th most popular British Extremist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Amelia Dyer ranks 197 out of 283. Before her are Belle Gunness, Herbert Mullin, Bugs Moran, Carl Panzram, Patty Hearst, and Mary Surratt. After her are Robledo Puch, John Wesley Hardin, Émile Henry, Irmgard Möller, Charles Starkweather, and Jane Toppan.

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Among people born in 1837, Amelia Dyer ranks 76. Before her are Georg Ossian Sars, Michele Rua, Henry Becque, Joachim IV of Constantinople, Alphonse Legros, and Tony Robert-Fleury. After her are Tigran Chukhajian, Georg von Kopp, Jacob Maris, Ignatz Kolisch, Robert Gould Shaw, and Jorge Isaacs. Among people deceased in 1896, Amelia Dyer ranks 61. Before her are Ferdinand von Mueller, Walthère Frère-Orban, Carl Humann, William Robert Grove, Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg, and Mathew Brady. After her are Gustav Adolf, Cardinal Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Alexey Bogolyubov, Mårten Eskil Winge, Maria Wodzińska, Johannes Müller Argoviensis, and Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Amelia Dyer ranks 2,972 out of 8,785. Before her are Stafford Beer (1926), Phyllida Law (1932), Ernest Marsden (1889), Carl Cox (1962), Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth (1914), and Lulu (1948). After her are David Johnson (1951), Mary Beale (1633), Limahl (1958), William Hunter (1718), George Shearing (1919), and Peter Cheyney (1896).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United Kingdom

Among extremists born in United Kingdom, Amelia Dyer ranks 13. Before her are Fred West (1941), John Adams (1767), Peter Sutcliffe (1946), Mary Bell (1957), Jonathan Wild (1683), and Guy Burgess (1911). After her are Dick Turpin (1705), Mary Ann Cotton (1832), Tommy Robinson (1982), John Bodkin Adams (1899), Howard Marks (1945), and Stuart Christie (1946).

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