SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Emily Davies

1830 - 1921

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Sarah Emily Davies (22 April 1830 – 13 July 1921) was an English feminist who founded Girton College, Cambridge. She campaigned as a suffragist and for women's rights to university education. In her early life, she attended meetings of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science and befriended Barbara Bodichon and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson. After moving to London with her mother in 1862, she wrote for and edited the English Woman's Journal and joined the Langham Place Group. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Emily Davies is the 559th most popular social activist (up from 576th in 2019), the 4,488th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,652nd in 2019) and the 35th most popular British Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Emily Davies ranks 559 out of 840. Before her are Roger Stone, Sakine Cansız, Marie Stritt, Aslı Erdoğan, Jerry Rubin, and Mina Ahadi. After her are Bram Fischer, Maggie Gobran, David Reimer, Devdas Gandhi, Ramdas Gandhi, and Josefa Francisco.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1830, Emily Davies ranks 70. Before her are Juan Manuel Blanes, Charles Wyville Thomson, Viktor Madarász, Clements Markham, Karolina Světlá, and Jaroslav Čermák. After her are Frederic Moore, Lina Morgenstern, Helen Hunt Jackson, Manuel Ezequiel Bruzual, Harriet Hosmer, and Yrjö Sakari Yrjö-Koskinen. Among people deceased in 1921, Emily Davies ranks 121. Before her are Léon Moreaux, Oswald Schmiedeberg, Ludwig Thoma, Eduardo Acevedo Díaz, Nino Martoglio, and Rudolf Stöger-Steiner von Steinstätten. After her are Mustafa Subhi, Władysław Żeleński, Isak Saba, C. I. Scofield, Justiniano Borgoño, and Philander C. Knox.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Emily Davies ranks 4,489 out of 8,785. Before her are Barbara Windsor (1937), Peter Warlock (1894), George Hadley (1685), Francis Leggatt Chantrey (1781), Kenneth Frampton (1930), and Scott Brown (1985). After her are Clara Reeve (1729), Astley Cooper (1768), George Lillo (1691), William Primrose (1904), Frederick Grace (1884), and Ronnie Lane (1946).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United Kingdom

Among social activists born in United Kingdom, Emily Davies ranks 35. Before her are Hereward the Wake (1035), Donald Watson (1910), Mary Toft (1703), Jack Sheppard (1702), Annie Kenney (1879), and Abdalqadir as-Sufi (1930). After her are Thomas Clarkson (1760), Emily Hobhouse (1860), Grey Owl (1888), Octavia Hill (1838), James Larkin (1876), and Ingrid Newkirk (1949).

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