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Elizabeth Fry

1780 - 1845

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Elizabeth Fry (née Gurney; 21 May 1780 – 12 October 1845), sometimes referred to as Betsy Fry, was an English prison reformer, social reformer, philanthropist and Quaker. Fry was a major driving force behind new legislation to improve the treatment of prisoners, especially female inmates, and as such has been called the "Angel of Prisons". She was instrumental in the 1823 Gaols Act which mandated sex-segregation of prisons and female warders for female inmates to protect them from sexual exploitation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elizabeth Fry has received more than 766,711 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Elizabeth Fry is the 11,889th most popular politician (down from 11,166th in 2019), the 2,696th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,691st in 2019) and the 408th most popular British Politician.

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  • 49.58

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.88

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.78

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Elizabeth Fry ranks 11,889 out of 15,577Before her are Doğu Perinçek, Sergey Mironov, George Frederick Charles, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, Arsames I, and Max von Hausen. After her are Marcus Claudius Marcellus, Edward Fortunatus, Kirta, Yakubu Gowon, Oldřich Duras, and Chatichai Choonhavan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1780, Elizabeth Fry ranks 37Before her are Alexey Venetsianov, Fulgencio Yegros, Juana Azurduy de Padilla, August Leopold Crelle, José Joaquín de Olmedo, and Piet Retief. After her are Karoline von Günderrode, Johann Friedrich Naumann, Michele Tenore, Johann Friedrich Adam, Francisco Xavier de Luna Pizarro, and Henry Salt. Among people deceased in 1845, Elizabeth Fry ranks 30Before her are Wazir Akbar Khan, Rafael Urdaneta, Henrik Steffens, Christian Frederik Hansen, Johnny Appleseed, and Nils Gabriel Sefström. After her are Antoine Risso, Zaman Shah Durrani, Francisco Manuel Blanco, Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar, Thomas Hood, and Joseph Story.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Elizabeth Fry ranks 2,696 out of 7,765Before her are Richard Marquand (1937), John Keegan (1934), Edward John Eyre (1815), Martin Barre (1946), Freddie Jones (1927), and E. A. Wallis Budge (1857). After her are Naveen Andrews (1969), Anna Russell (1807), Robert Fisk (1946), Edward Fortunatus (1565), Thandie Newton (1972), and Gillian Rubinstein (1942).

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