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Beatrice Webb

One of the four founders of the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Mary E Garrett

American philanthropist who donated money to start the Johns Hopkins University Medical School in 1893 on the condition that the school would accept women students “on the same terms as men”.

Elizabeth Nicholls was a highly important figure in the campaigns in South Australia and eventually, nationally, for restriction of the sale of alcohol and the movement to extend political rights from her base in the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).

Emma Miller

Emma Miller played a vital part in the campaign for women’s suffrage in Queensland where she was perhaps the best known of a talented group of activists.

Phoebe Hearst

American philanthropist

Harriot Stanton Blatch

American social reformer

Emily Gibson

Irish-New Zealander Emily Gibson’s life was spent working for the causes of peace and social justice.

Constance Markievicz

Irish republican and labour activist

Margaret Dockrell

Irish suffragist, philanthropist, and councillor

Noeline Baker

New Zeaaland gardener’s Noeline Baker’s aim was to grow all plants indigenous to Stewart Island as listed by the botanist Leonard Cockayne. Over the next 15 years her garden became a place of botanical significance and in 1949 she was awarded the Loder Cup.