Constance Markievicz
Irish republican and labour activist
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Beeban Annadale McKnight
New Zealand entertainer and community activist
Beatrice Dixon
Irish pioneer of women’s participation in public life
Margaret Dockrell
Irish suffragist, philanthropist, and councillor
Kathleen Lonsdale
Irish X-ray crystallographer and pacifist
Noeline Baker
New Zeaaland gardener’s Noeline Baker’s aim was to grow all plants indigenous to Stewart Island as listed by the botanist Leonard Cockayne. Over the next 15 years her garden became a place of botanical significance and in 1949 she was awarded the Loder Cup.
Maud Reeves
New Zealand suffragist and social reformer
Joss Shawyer
New Zealand activist and single mother Joss Shawyer campaigned for the rights of single mothers from the 1970s.
Wilhelmina Sherriff Bain
New Zealand activist and writer
Anne Devlin
Irish nationalist and heroine