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Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach

Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach (February 21, 1851, Hadamar, Duchy of Nassau – December 15, 1913, Capri) was a German painter and social reformer.

Lilatai Pradkar

Lilatai Pradkar (born February 1925 in Madhya Pradesh, India) is an Indian social reformer who is fighting for education of tribal women and empowerment.


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1986 in India

6 July - Jagjivan Ram, freedom fighter and social reformer (born 1908).

Andhra Mahasabha

The leaders like Baddam Yella Reddy, Anabheri Prabhakar Rao, Singireddy Bhoopathi Reddy and the social reformer Bhoomaiah vakil (pleader) played important role in organising this conference.

Carcoar, New South Wales

Havelock Ellis, physician, psychologist, writer, social reformer who was a pioneer in the study of human sexuality.

Charles Buxton

Buxton was born in Cobham, Surrey, the third son of Sir Thomas Buxton, 1st Baronet, a notable brewer, MP and social reformer, and followed in his father's footsteps, becoming a partner in the brewery of Truman, Hanbury, Buxton, & Co in Brick Lane, Spitalfields, London, and then an MP.

Charles Parkhurst

Charles Henry Parkhurst (1842–1933), American clergyman and social reformer

Christopher Turnor

Christopher Hatton Turnor (1873-1940), English architect and social reformer

Dakshayani Velayudhan

Dakshayani belonged to the Pulaya community and was the younger sister of the social reformer and legislator K. P. Vallon.

Elizabeth Reid

Elizabeth Jesser Reid (1789–1866), English social reformer, founder of Bedford College

Emma Willard School

The school was immediately successful, and it graduated many great thinkers, including noted social reformer and suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

Fixby

In the nineteenth century Fixby was a large estate to which social reformer Richard Oastler was appointed as steward from 1830 until 1838 when he was relieved of his duties for his political activities: pamphleteering, lobbying and in the establishment of Short Time Committees in industrial towns throughout Yorkshire.

Frederick Douglas

Frederick Douglass, American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman

George Birkbeck

He is of the same Birkbeck family as early 19th-century Illinois pioneer, social reformer, author, publicist and agricultural innovator Morris Birkbeck.

Guduru Venkatachalam

At the time of his father’s death, G.V. Chalam was only eight years old.He was brought up by his paternal uncle, Guduru Ramachandra Rao – a Gandhian and a pioneer social reformer who convened the first Adi Andhra Mahajana Sabha in 1917 for the emancipation of the so-called ‘untouchable’ castes, Malas and Madigas of Andhra Pradesh (now known as Dalits).

H. J. Rose

In 1911 he married Eliza Plimsoll, elder daughter of Samuel Plimsoll, the British social reformer who advocated improved safety standards at sea.

Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz

In January 1778 Kaufmann sent Lenz to the philanthropist, social reformer and clergyman Johann Friedrich Oberlin in Waldersbach in Alsace, where he stayed from 20 January to 8 February.

Kandukuri Veeresalingam

Rao Bahadur Kandukuri Veeresalingam also spelled as Kandukuri Veereshalingam (Telugu: కందుకూరి వీరేశలింగం) (16 April 1848 – 27 May 1919), also known as Kandukuri Veereshalingam Pantulu (Telugu: వీరేశలింగం పంతులు), was a social reformer of Andhra Pradesh.

Karl Schmidt-Hellerau

Karl Camillo Schmidt-Hellerau (1 February 1873 in Zschopau - 6 November 1948 in Hellerau) was a German carpenter, furniture manufacturer and social reformer.

Karl von Zinzendorf

His uncle was Nicolaus Zinzendorf, a famous religious and social reformer and bishop of the Moravian Church.

Kate Waller Barrett

Kate Waller Barrett (January 24, 1857 – February 23, 1925), née Katherine Harwood Waller, was a prominent Virginia physician, humanitarian, philanthropist, sociologist and social reformer, best known for her leadership of the National Florence Crittenton Mission, which she founded in 1895 with Charles Nelson Crittenton.

Kerpen

Recently Kerpen has become more famous as being the hometown of the Catholic priest and social reformer Adolph Kolping and the Formula One racing drivers Michael Schumacher and his brother Ralf Schumacher as well as Wolfgang von Trips and reggae artist Patrice Bart-Williams.

Labor Department Act

Lathrop’s father, William Lathrop of Illinois, had helped found the Republican Party in 1854, while she herself was a graduate of Vassar College, a friend of Jane Addams, and a social reformer who had worked at Hull House in Chicago.

Madapati Hanumantha Rao

He was a social reformer and, with Vadlakonda Narasimha Rao, started one of the first schools for girls in India, the Madapati Hanumantha Rao Girl's High School, in Narayanguda, Hyderabad.

Mangilal Arya

Arya devoted his career to Arya Samaj, the Hindu reform movement of Swami Dayananda Saraswati, working as a freedom fighter and social reformer.

Marion Coates Hansen

Born into the well-to-do Coates family, she was drawn to socialism through her association with Joseph Fels, the American industrialist and social reformer for whom she worked as a nanny in Philadelphia in the early 1890s.

Mary Watts

Mary Fraser Tytler, married name Mary Seton Watts, (1849–1938), English architect, artist and social reformer

Mattanur

The college was established in 1964, founded by social reformer and great educationalist Padma Bhushan Mannathu Padmanabhan.

Michael Rowntree

He was the son of Arnold Rowntree and a nephew of Chocolatier and social-reformer Joseph Rowntree.

Mosa Walsalam Sastriyar

Mosa Walsalam Sastriyar(1847 - February 20, 1916) was born in Thirupuram near Thriuvananthapuram, Valsala Shastriar was a poet, music composer, singer and social reformer.

Namik

Namık Kemal (1840–1888), Turkish nationalist poet, novelist, playwright, journalist, and social reformer

Ramananda

Ramananda for the most part of his life lived in the holy city of Varanasi, and was a pioneer of the Bhakti movement, as well as a social reformer in Northern India.

Satyarth Prakash

Satyarth Prakash (English title: The Light of Truth) is a 1875 book written originally in Hindi by Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati, a renowned social reformer and the founder of Arya Samaj.

Shaftesbury Park Estate

At the same time as the conception of the estate, the social reformer and peer, The Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, was pushing legislation through parliament to improve the living and employment conditions of working people and sponsoring philanthropic efforts to provide schooling for their children.

Sophonisba Breckinridge

Breckinridge worked with Vassar College graduate and social reformer Julia Lathrop, social gospel minister Graham Taylor (founder of the settlement house, Chicago Commons) and others to create the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy, becoming its first (and only) dean.

Sorabji

Cornelia Sorabji (1866–1954), first woman barrister from India, social reformer and writer

Sri Sri Harichand Thakur

Harichand Thakur, sometimes known as Sri Sri Harichand Thakur, was a social reformer in Bengal.

St Marylebone School

In 1808, with the support of local philanthropist and social reformer Sir Thomas Bernard the school moved to 82 Marylebone High Street, which is now the boutique store Rachel Riley.

Tender years doctrine

In the early nineteenth century, Mrs. Caroline Norton, a prominent British society beauty, feminist, social reformer author, and journalist, began to campaign for the right of women to have custody of their children.

Thirumangai Alvar

He in many respects a dynamic figure, ardent in love, spectacular in his deeds, a rebel and a social reformer, even a kind of Robin Hood, and above all an exquisite lyricist.

Todmorden Unitarian Church

The Unitarian movement originated in Todmorden in the early 19th century, and one of their prominent members was John Fielden, a local mill owner and a social reformer, who later became a Member of Parliament.

UCL Centre for Digital Humanities

The Bentham Project is preparing a new definitive edition of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham, the utilitarian philosopher, jurist, economist, political theorist and social reformer.

V. M. Tarkunde

He was the 2nd of the five children of Mahadeo Rajaram Tarkunde, a popular lawyer and social reformer at Saswad,then headquarters of Purandar taluka adjoining Pune.

Wategaon

Social reformer and writer Annabhau Sathe (Devanagari: अण्णाभाऊ साठे) was born in this village in 1920.

William Tebb

Privately educated, Tebb started work at fifteen for a Manchester business, attending evening classes where he encountered the ideas of the British radicals John Bright, Richard Cobden and Robert Owen, and the American Christian social reformer Adin Ballou.

Winsen an der Aller

Theodor Lohmann (1831–1905), administrative lawyer, civil servant and social reformer, was born in Winsen.

Ysgol John Bright

It was founded with money and support from the social reformer John Bright, whose son died in Llandudno in 1864.