SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Kate Sheppard

1848 - 1934

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Katherine Wilson Sheppard (née Catherine Wilson Malcolm; 10 March 1848 – 13 July 1934) was the most prominent member of the women's suffrage movement in New Zealand and the country's most famous suffragist. Born in Liverpool, England, she emigrated to New Zealand with her family in 1868. There she became an active member of various religious and social organisations, including the Women's Christian Temperance Union New Zealand (WCTU NZ). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kate Sheppard has received more than 631,531 page views. Her biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Kate Sheppard is the 233rd most popular social activist (up from 242nd in 2019), the 1,448th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,694th in 2019) and the 13th most popular British Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Kate Sheppard ranks 233 out of 840. Before her are Nayirah testimony, Eunus, Haim Arlosoroff, Édouard René de Laboulaye, Ludolf von Alvensleben, and C. Rajagopalachari. After her are Jayaprakash Narayan, Viktors Arājs, Simon bar Giora, Nimr al-Nimr, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Marina Ginestà.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1848, Kate Sheppard ranks 47. Before her are Louis Comfort Tiffany, Lothar von Trotha, Auguste Forel, Maximilian von Prittwitz, Hermann von Eichhorn, and Raja Ravi Varma. After her are Francis Darwin, Friedrich Ernst Dorn, Henri Duparc, Anatoly Stessel, Helen Allingham, and Georges Ohnet. Among people deceased in 1934, Kate Sheppard ranks 56. Before her are Hans Hahn, Hermann Bahr, Viktor Kaplan, Charles Webster Leadbeater, Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma, and Paul Troost. After her are Friedrich Ferdinand, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, Roberto Ferruzzi, Edmund Heines, Frederick Delius, Ferdinand von Bredow, and Karl Ernst.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Kate Sheppard ranks 1,448 out of 8,785. Before her are David Hemmings (1941), David Bradley (1942), George Arliss (1868), Reginald Doherty (1872), Maurice Wilkes (1913), and Brian Aldiss (1925). After her are Colin Wilson (1931), Joseph Addison (1672), Sophie, Countess of Wessex (1965), George Romney (1734), Christopher Robin Milne (1920), and Sandie Shaw (1947).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United Kingdom

Among social activists born in United Kingdom, Kate Sheppard ranks 13. Before her are Thomas Cranmer (1489), Annie Besant (1847), Mairead Maguire (1944), Emily Davison (1872), Max Mosley (1940), and Sylvia Pankhurst (1882). After her are Eglantyne Jebb (1876), Cassivellaunus (-100), Wat Tyler (1341), Allan Octavian Hume (1829), Christabel Pankhurst (1880), and Millicent Fawcett (1847).

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