Emily Hobhouse

Emily Hobhouse
Emily Hobhouse photographed by Henry Walter Barnett in 1902
Born(1860-04-09)9 April 1860
St Ive, Cornwall, England
Died8 June 1926(1926-06-08) (aged 66)
Kensington, London, England
Occupation(s)Welfare campaigner; humanitarian activist
Parent(s)Reginald Hobhouse (father)
Caroline Trelawny
RelativesLeonard Trelawny Hobhouse (brother)

Emily Hobhouse (9 April 1860 – 8 June 1926) was a British welfare campaigner, anti-war activist, and pacifist.[1][2][3] She is primarily remembered for bringing to the attention of the British public, and working to change, the deprived conditions inside the British concentration camps in South Africa built to incarcerate Boer and African civilians during the Second Boer War.

  1. ^ "Home". The Emily Hobhouse Letters: South Africa in International Context, 1899-1926. Retrieved 20 August 2019.
  2. ^ Rebecca Gill & Cornelis Muller (2018) The limits of agency: Emily Hobhouse’s international activism and the politics of suffering, Safundi, 19:1, 16-35, DOI: 10.1080/17533171.2018.1404744
  3. ^ "Boer War biscuit". BBC. Retrieved 20 August 2019.

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