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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Octavia Hill

1838 - 1912

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Octavia Hill (3 December 1838 – 13 August 1912) was an English social reformer, whose main concern was the welfare of the inhabitants of cities, especially London, in the second half of the nineteenth century. Born into a family of radical thinkers and reformers with a strong commitment to alleviating poverty, she herself grew up in straitened circumstances owing to the financial failure of her father's businesses. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Octavia Hill has received more than 290,935 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Octavia Hill is the 436th most popular social activist, the 3,471st most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 30th most popular British Social Activist.

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  • 15

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  • 3.51

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  • 2.47

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Octavia Hill ranks 436 out of 538Before her are Joseph Wresinski, Bagha Jatin, Gunnar Sønsteby, Olga Lepeshinskaya, Charu Majumdar, and William Luther Pierce. After her are Medgar Evers, Eugénie Cotton, Helene Stöcker, Megumi Yokota, Stokely Carmichael, and Devdas Gandhi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, Octavia Hill ranks 89Before her are Adam Asnyk, Alexander Veselovsky, Gustav Neumann, Eli Lilly, Duleep Singh, and Stefanos Skouloudis. After her are Cleveland Abbe, Margaret E. Knight, Marc Delafontaine, Henry Hobson Richardson, Walter Buller, and Joseph F. Smith. Among people deceased in 1912, Octavia Hill ranks 104Before her are Spiru Haret, Iakob Gogebashvili, Harriet Quimby, Émile Lemoine, Francis Davis Millet, and Marc-Émile Ruchet. After her are Eduardo López de Romaña, Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg, Cesare Arzelà, Henry Robertson Bowers, Björn Jónsson, and Anton Aškerc.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Octavia Hill ranks 3,471 out of 7,765Before her are John Arbuthnot (1667), Thomas Linley the younger (1756), Clifford Edmund Bosworth (1928), Luke Foxe (1586), Blanche Bingley (1863), and William Sherard (1659). After her are David Don (1799), Annie S. D. Maunder (1868), Barry Foster (1931), Karen Spärck Jones (1935), Natalia Tena (1984), and John Mayow (1640).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United Kingdom

Among social activists born in United Kingdom, Octavia Hill ranks 30Before her are Donald Watson (1910), Venetia Burney (1918), Mary Dyer (1611), Mary Toft (1703), Grey Owl (1888), and Jack Sheppard (1702). After her are Abdalqadir as-Sufi (1930), Annie Kenney (1879), Hereward the Wake (1035), Emily Hobhouse (1860), Thomas Clarkson (1760), and James Larkin (1876).