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Mary Ann Cotton

1832 - 1873

Mary Ann Cotton

Mary Ann Cotton (née Robson; 31 October 1832 – 24 March 1873) was an English convicted murderer who was executed for poisoning her stepson. Despite her sole conviction for murder, she is believed to have been a serial killer who killed many others including 11 of her 13 children and three of her four husbands for their life insurance policies. Her preferred method of killing was poisoning with arsenic. Cotton's undoing came after she tried to have the son of her deceased husband sent to a workhouse. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mary Ann Cotton is the 214th most popular extremist (down from 181st in 2019), the 3,364th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,405th in 2019) and the 15th most popular British Extremist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Mary Ann Cotton ranks 214 out of 283. Before her are Ibn al-Khattab, Stand Watie, Ahmed Jabari, Richard Speck, Luis Posada Carriles, and Dick Turpin. After her are Ernst Zündel, Yoo Young-chul, Robert Berdella, William Bonin, Amparo Poch y Gascón, and Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi.

Most Popular Extremists in Wikipedia

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Ibn al-Khattab
1969 - 2002
HPI: 57.84
Rank: 208
Stand Watie
1806 - 1871
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 209
Ahmed Jabari
1960 - 2012
HPI: 57.64
Rank: 210
Richard Speck
1941 - 1991
HPI: 57.63
Rank: 211
Luis Posada Carriles
1928 - 2018
HPI: 57.57
Rank: 212
Dick Turpin
1705 - 1739
HPI: 57.52
Rank: 213
Mary Ann Cotton
1832 - 1873
HPI: 57.38
Rank: 214
Ernst Zündel
1939 - 2017
HPI: 57.30
Rank: 215
Yoo Young-chul
1970 - Present
HPI: 57.24
Rank: 216
Robert Berdella
1949 - 1992
HPI: 57.22
Rank: 217
William Bonin
1947 - 1996
HPI: 56.96
Rank: 218
Amparo Poch y Gascón
1902 - 1968
HPI: 56.93
Rank: 219
Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi
1979 - 2023
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 220

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1832, Mary Ann Cotton ranks 72. Before her are Lucretia Garfield, Miroslav Tyrš, Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line, Carl Friedrich Schmidt, Larin Paraske, and Max Lange. After her are Sergey Botkin, Léon Gautier, Victor Meirelles, Carl Neumann, Luigi Jacobini, and Mary Edwards Walker. Among people deceased in 1873, Mary Ann Cotton ranks 60. Before her are Odilon Barrot, Paweł Strzelecki, Eugène Flachat, Gheorghe Bibescu, Francis Marrash, and Charles Dupin. After her are Christopher Hansteen, Friedrich Frey-Herosé, Semen Hulak-Artemovsky, Mykhailo Maksymovych, Salmon P. Chase, and Stanislas Julien.

Others Born in 1832

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Lucretia Garfield
POLITICIAN
1832 - 1918
HPI: 57.92
Rank: 66
Miroslav Tyrš
SOCIAL ACTIVIST
1832 - 1884
HPI: 57.89
Rank: 67
Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line
NOBLEMAN
1832 - 1913
HPI: 57.89
Rank: 68
Carl Friedrich Schmidt
GEOLOGIST
1832 - 1908
HPI: 57.56
Rank: 69
Larin Paraske
SINGER
1832 - 1904
HPI: 57.47
Rank: 70
Max Lange
WRITER
1832 - 1899
HPI: 57.41
Rank: 71
Mary Ann Cotton
EXTREMIST
1832 - 1873
HPI: 57.38
Rank: 72
Sergey Botkin
PHYSICIAN
1832 - 1889
HPI: 57.26
Rank: 73
Léon Gautier
HISTORIAN
1832 - 1897
HPI: 57.01
Rank: 74
Victor Meirelles
PAINTER
1832 - 1903
HPI: 56.92
Rank: 75
Carl Neumann
MATHEMATICIAN
1832 - 1925
HPI: 56.91
Rank: 76
Luigi Jacobini
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1832 - 1887
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 77
Mary Edwards Walker
SOCIAL ACTIVIST
1832 - 1919
HPI: 56.83
Rank: 78