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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Mary Toft

1703 - 1763

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Mary Toft (née Denyer; c. 1701–1763), also spelled Tofts, was an English woman from Godalming, Surrey, who in 1726 became the subject of considerable controversy when she tricked doctors into believing that she had given birth to rabbits. In 1726, Toft became pregnant, but following her reported fascination with the sighting of a rabbit, she miscarried. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mary Toft has received more than 1,601,723 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Mary Toft is the 355th most popular social activist (down from 353rd in 2019), the 2,622nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,829th in 2019) and the 27th most popular British Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Mary Toft ranks 355 out of 538Before her are Toyohiko Kagawa, Natalya Estemirova, Venetia Burney, William Howard Russell, Deniz Gezmiş, and Mary Dyer. After her are Dorothy Day, Jerry Rubin, Claudette Colvin, Harry Wu, Leona Vicario, and Karl Ludwig Sand.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1703, Mary Toft ranks 14Before her are Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Baden-Durlach, Anton Wilhelm Amo, Johann Gottlieb Graun, Johann Theodor of Bavaria, Aleksei Chirikov, and Vasily Trediakovsky.  Among people deceased in 1763, Mary Toft ranks 18Before her are Marco Foscarini, Anton Ulrich, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Johann Theodor of Bavaria, Karl August, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Joseph François Dupleix, and Suleiman II of Persia. After her are Olof von Dalin, Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht, Khariton Laptev, Gabriela Silang, and Fyodor Volkov.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mary Toft ranks 2,622 out of 7,765Before her are Alan Young (1919), Edmund Leach (1910), Mary Dyer (1611), Tony Atkinson (1944), Ken McArthur (1881), and Edward Granville Browne (1862). After her are Ralph Erskine (1914), Frances Burney (1752), Stephen Daldry (1960), Andrew Lang (1844), Jonathan Edwards (1966), and Cara Delevingne (1992).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United Kingdom

Among social activists born in United Kingdom, Mary Toft ranks 27Before her are Sylvia Pankhurst (1882), Christabel Pankhurst (1880), James Guillaume (1844), Donald Watson (1910), Venetia Burney (1918), and Mary Dyer (1611). After her are Grey Owl (1888), Jack Sheppard (1702), Octavia Hill (1838), Abdalqadir as-Sufi (1930), Annie Kenney (1879), and Hereward the Wake (1035).