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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Emily Davison

1872 - 1913

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Emily Wilding Davison (11 October 1872 – 8 June 1913) was an English suffragette who fought for votes for women in Britain in the early twentieth century. A member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and a militant fighter for her cause, she was arrested on nine occasions, went on hunger strike seven times and was force-fed on forty-nine occasions. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Emily Davison has received more than 2,774,762 page views. Her biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Emily Davison is the 183rd most popular social activist (down from 117th in 2019), the 1,164th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 825th in 2019) and the 12th most popular British Social Activist.

Emily Davison was a suffragette who died after throwing herself in front of the king's horse during the Epsom Derby in 1913.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Emily Davison ranks 183 out of 538. Before her are Mordechai Vanunu, Rudi Dutschke, Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen, Otoya Yamaguchi, Guru Ram Das, and Salvador Puig Antich. After her are Andrés Bonifacio, W. E. B. Du Bois, Yelena Bonner, Chico Mendes, Lepa Radić, and Gloria Steinem.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Emily Davison ranks 47. Before her are Ottokar Czernin, Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark, Willem de Sitter, Marcel Renault, Edward Gordon Craig, and Ichiyō Higuchi. After her are Kijūrō Shidehara, Akhmet Baitursynov, Princess Margaret of Prussia, Pío Baroja, Vladimir Arsenyev, and Anton Korošec. Among people deceased in 1913, Emily Davison ranks 26. Before her are Blanche Monnier, Gustaf de Laval, Alfred Redl, Infanta Antónia of Portugal, Empress Dowager Longyu, and Mariano Rampolla. After her are Mahmud Shevket Pasha, David Popper, Song Jiaoren, Reginald Lee, John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, and Archduke Rainer Ferdinand of Austria.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Emily Davison ranks 1,164 out of 7,765. Before her are Paul Scofield (1922), Alfonso de Portago (1928), Glenn Hughes (1951), Albert Hammond (1944), Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (1855), and Mary Leakey (1913). After her are Sophie, Countess of Wessex (1965), Roddy McDowall (1928), Eddie the Eagle (1963), Johannes de Sacrobosco (1195), Bob Paisley (1919), and James Lind (1716).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United Kingdom

Among social activists born in United Kingdom, Emily Davison ranks 12. Before her are Betty Williams (1943), Annie Besant (1847), Thomas Cranmer (1489), Mairead Maguire (1944), Max Mosley (1940), and Unity Mitford (1914). After her are Wat Tyler (1341), Kate Sheppard (1848), Robert Catesby (1573), Charles Boycott (1832), Eglantyne Jebb (1876), and Josephine Butler (1828).

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