Henrietta de Grey
Countess de Grey , political hostess and philanthropist
Category Archives: Philanthropy
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Annie Montague Alexander
Philanthropist, zoologist, paleontologist, and heiress who established the University of California Museum of Paleontology and Museum of Vertebrate Zoology.
Kathryn Hach-Darrow
Hach-Darrow’s Hach Chemical ensured that clean water flows from household taps and everywhere that water quality is an issue.
Mary Lasker
Medical philanthropist, political strategist, and health activist Mary Lasker acted as the catalyst for the rapid growth of the biomedical research enterprise in the United States after World War II.
Maria Alexandrovna
Russian empress
Saint Aelia Eudocia
Consort of the Emperor Theodosius II of Byzantium, poet, philanthropist.
Agnes Franz
Polish-German poet
Jane Ewart-Biggs
British politician and President of the British Committee of UNICEF, later serving as the Labour Party’s spokesperson on home affairs, consumer affairs and overseas development.
Katherine Conolly
Irish political hostess, landowner and philanthropist
Catherine Fulton
New Zealand diarist, community leader, philanthropist, social reformer and suffragist