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Elizabeth Fry

1780 - 1845

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Elizabeth Fry (née Gurney; 21 May 1780 – 12 October 1845), sometimes referred to as Betsy Fry, was an English prison reformer, social reformer, philanthropist and Quaker. Fry was a major driving force behind new legislation to improve the treatment of prisoners, especially female inmates, and as such has been called the "Angel of Prisons". She was instrumental in the 1823 Gaols Act which mandated sex-segregation of prisons and female warders for female inmates to protect them from sexual exploitation. Fry kept extensive diaries, in which she wrote explicitly of the need to protect female prisoners from rape and sexual exploitation. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2024). Elizabeth Fry is the 13,695th most popular politician (down from 13,062nd in 2024), the 3,334th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,927th in 2019) and the 463rd most popular British Politician.

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Among politicians, Elizabeth Fry ranks 13,695 out of 19,576. Before her are Abu Sa'id Uthman II, Janet Jagan, Levan Tediashvili, Prince Karl of Auersperg, Princess Marie Anne of Saxe-Altenburg, and Ashur-nirari III. After her are Florence Bascom, Mike Huckabee, Daniel Morelon, Edén Pastora, Khin Nyunt, and Robert Borden.

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Among people born in 1780, Elizabeth Fry ranks 45. Before her are Henri Braconnot, Fulgencio Yegros, Karoline von Günderrode, José Joaquín de Olmedo, Matvei Gedenshtrom, and Piet Retief. After her are Johann Friedrich Adam, Yakov Sannikov, Henry Salt, Michele Tenore, Antonie Brentano, and Jørgen Jørgensen. Among people deceased in 1845, Elizabeth Fry ranks 34. Before her are Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau, Vincent-Marie Viénot, Count of Vaublanc, Christian Frederik Hansen, Antoine Risso, Matvei Gedenshtrom, and Johnny Appleseed. After her are Gregor MacGregor, Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar, Karl Julius Perleb, Josef Danhauser, Friedrich Ludwig Persius, and Johann Wilhelm Meigen.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Elizabeth Fry ranks 3,335 out of 8,785. Before her are Frederick Twort (1877), Bryan Robson (1957), Joseph Quinn (1994), Simon Wright (1963), William Davenant (1606), and Andrew Loog Oldham (1944). After her are Sam Allardyce (1954), William Edward Ayrton (1847), Richard Anthony Salisbury (1761), Thomas Bell (1792), James Norton (1985), and Noddy Holder (1946).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Elizabeth Fry ranks 463. Before her are Enoch Powell (1912), Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk (1443), Princess Louisa of Great Britain (1749), Robin Cook (1946), Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (1609), and Matthew Hopkins (1620). After her are Geoffrey Howe (1926), Herbert Lawford (1851), George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758), Ian Paisley (1926), William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford (1768), and George W. Campbell (1769).

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