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Mary Dyer

1611 - 1660

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Mary Dyer (born Marie Barrett; c. 1611 – 1 June 1660) was an English and colonial American Puritan-turned-Quaker who was hanged in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony, for repeatedly defying a Puritan law banning Quakers from the colony due to their theological expansion of the Puritan concept of a church of individuals regenerated by the Holy Spirit to the idea of the indwelling of the Spirit or the "Light of Christ", which was deemed dangerous heresy. She is one of the four executed Quakers known as the Boston martyrs. Dyer's birthplace has not been established, but it is known that she was married in London in 1633 to William Dyer, a member of the Fishmongers' Company but a milliner by profession. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mary Dyer is the 294th most popular social activist (up from 418th in 2019), the 2,209th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,833rd in 2019) and the 18th most popular British Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Mary Dyer ranks 294 out of 840. Before her are Hannie Schaft, Amelia Bloomer, Rattanbai Jinnah, Abdallah ibn Yasin, Gustave Moynier, and Zhang Guotao. After her are Policarpa Salavarrieta, Hector Hodler, Cassivellaunus, Yuri Levitan, Efua Dorkenoo, and Naziha al-Dulaimi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1611, Mary Dyer ranks 14. Before her are John Pell, Marie Louise Gonzaga, Cecilia Renata of Austria, Karl Eusebius, Prince of Liechtenstein, Carlo Rainaldi, and Jan Fyt. After her are Antonio de Pereda, Giancarlo de' Medici, James Harrington, Willem van de Velde the Elder, Magdalene of Nagasaki, and Henry Ireton. Among people deceased in 1660, Mary Dyer ranks 20. Before her are Ayşe Sultan, Alexandre de Rhodes, Paul Scarron, Giovanni Battista Hodierna, Govert Flinck, and Jacob Cats. After her are Maria Gonzaga, Duchess of Montferrat, John Casimir, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Matthias Stom, Joos van Craesbeeck, Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester, and Chimalpahin.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mary Dyer ranks 2,209 out of 8,785. Before her are Philip Selway (1967), James Finlayson (1887), Mike Leigh (1943), Mary Elizabeth Barber (1818), Steve Jones (1955), and Liam Gallagher (1972). After her are David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty (1871), Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836), Geri Halliwell (1972), William Jones (1675), John Stevens Henslow (1796), and David Platt (1966).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United Kingdom

Among social activists born in United Kingdom, Mary Dyer ranks 18. Before her are Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence (1867), Christabel Pankhurst (1880), Kate Sheppard (1848), Unity Mitford (1914), Eglantyne Jebb (1876), and Wat Tyler (1341). After her are Cassivellaunus (-100), Millicent Fawcett (1847), Allan Octavian Hume (1829), Venetia Burney (1918), Josephine Butler (1828), and Sylvia Pankhurst (1882).

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