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Cornwall museum celebrates Emily Hobhouse's 165th birthday • Apr. 12, 2025, 3:11 AM ET (BBC)
Anglo-Boer war whistleblower Emily Hobhouse celebrated in Cornish home • Apr. 8, 2025, 4:49 AM ET (The Guardian)

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Born April 9, 1860 • England
Died June 8, 1926 (aged 66) • London • England
Role In South African War
Robert Cecil, 3rd marquess of Salisbury
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd marquess of Salisbury
prime minister of United Kingdom
Catherine Booth
British religious leader
Frank Holl: Joseph Chamberlain
Joseph Chamberlain
British politician and social reformer
Milner, detail of an oil painting by Hugh de Twenebrokes Glazebrook, 1901; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Alfred Milner, Viscount Milner
British diplomat
Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener
Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener
British field marshal
Garnet Joseph Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley
Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley
British field marshal
Evangeline Cory Booth.
Evangeline Cory Booth
American religious leader
Booth, William
William Booth
British minister
French, John, 1st earl of Ypres
John French, 1st earl of Ypres
British field marshal
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell of Gilwell
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
British army officer
Maud Ballington Booth.
Maud Ballington Booth
American religious leader
Roberts, Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl, Viscount St. Pierre
Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts
British field marshal
Mary Carpenter, portrait after a photograph, c. 1860; in the City Art Gallery, Bristol, Eng.
Mary Carpenter
British philanthropist
Robert Crowley
English social reformer
Dill
Sir John Greer Dill
British field marshal
Booth, William Bramwell
William Bramwell Booth
British minister
Paul Sanford Methuen, 3rd Baron Methuen
British military officer
Sir John Hope Simpson
British administrator
Samuel A. Barnett
British clergyman
William Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside
British field marshal