Germaine Ford de Maria
Germaine Ford de Maria was a French philanthropist who funded Egyptologist Christiane Desroches Noblecourt’s excavation of the Valley of the Queens in the 1980s, among other cultural and environmental causes.
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Margaret Damer Dawson
Before becoming involved in policing, she was a talented student at the London Academy of Music, a respected mountaineer and a fearless campaigner for animal rights and the anti-vivisection movement. In 1906 she was secretary of the International Animal Protection Societies and was awarded medals by Finland and Denmark for her outstanding contribution to animal welfare.
Mary Ann Gilbert
English allotment activist
Flora Sassoon
Businesswoman, philanthropist and Hebrew scholar
Emilia Sczaniecka
Polish social and national activist during the November Uprising (1830–1831)
Marta Abreu y Arencibia
Cuban philanthropist
Gertrude Denman
Director of the Women’s Land Army during the Second World War, and President of the Women’s Institute from 1917 – 1946.
Laura Bell
Celebrated Irish beauty and courtesan
Baranamtarra
Baranamtarra was an ancient Mesopotamia businesswoman.
Sarah Franklin Bache
Sarah Bache, the only daughter of Benjamin Franklin, was a leader in relief work during the American Revolutionary War and frequently served as her father’s political hostess.