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Amelia Dyer

1837 - 1896

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Amelia Elizabeth Hobley (1837 – 10 June 1896), popularly dubbed the Ogress of Reading, was an English serial killer who murdered infants in her care over a thirty-year period during the Victorian era. Trained as a nurse and widowed in 1869, she turned to baby farming—the practice of adopting unwanted infants in exchange for money—to support herself. She initially cared for the children legitimately, in addition to having two of her own, but whether intentionally or not a number of them died in her care, leading to a conviction for neglect and six months' hard labour. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Amelia Dyer has received more than 2,504,553 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Amelia Dyer is the 190th most popular extremist, the 2,598th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 12th most popular British Extremist.

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Amelia Dyer ranks 190 out of 283. Before her are Andrew Cunanan, Carl Panzram, Peter Sutcliffe, Guy Burgess, Brigitte Mohnhaupt, and John Wesley Hardin. After her are Ramadan Shalah, Luis Posada Carriles, Yoo Young-chul, Mohamed Atta, Richard Speck, and Stanley Williams.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1837, Amelia Dyer ranks 72. Before her are Kabayama Sukenori, Horace Parnell Tuttle, Dwight L. Moody, Henry Becque, Altaf Hussain Hali, and Theodore Gill. After her are Ignatz Kolisch, Francis Marrash, Wilhelm Kühne, Jorge Isaacs, Charles Yerkes, and Tigran Chukhajian. Among people deceased in 1896, Amelia Dyer ranks 58. Before her are Ferdinand von Mueller, Maria Wodzińska, Carl Humann, Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs, Vera Yevstafievna Popova, and Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg. After her are Mårten Eskil Winge, Félix Tisserand, Gustav Adolf, Cardinal Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Jane Wilde, Mathew Brady, and Walthère Frère-Orban.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Amelia Dyer ranks 2,598 out of 8,785. Before her are Edward Robert Hughes (1851), Arthur Kinnaird, 11th Lord Kinnaird (1847), Vanessa Kirby (1988), Ernest William Brown (1866), Ronald Pickup (1940), and Herbert Hall Turner (1861). After her are Constance Markievicz (1868), Siegfried Sassoon (1886), John Crawfurd (1783), Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox (1516), Caradoc (470), and Phil Manzanera (1951).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United Kingdom

Among extremists born in United Kingdom, Amelia Dyer ranks 12. Before her are John Adams (1767), Mary Bell (1957), John Haigh (1909), Mary Ann Cotton (1832), Peter Sutcliffe (1946), and Guy Burgess (1911). After her are John Bodkin Adams (1899), Jonathan Wild (1683), Dick Turpin (1705), John Christie (1899), Howard Marks (1945), and Stuart Christie (1946).

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