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.
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Bernardina Frajoso de Rivera
Uruguayan philanthropist and benefactor, first lady of Uruguay in 1830 to 1834 and from 1838 to 1843
Anna Pestalozzi-Schulthess
Swiss educator and philanthropist
Ellin Prince Speyer
American philanthropist
Olivia Sage
American philanthropist
Elizabeth Fry
English philanthropist, suffragist and social reformer
Charlotte Payne-Townshend
Irish heiress and Fabian
Mary E Garrett
American philanthropist who donated money to start the Johns Hopkins University Medical School in 1893 on the condition that the school would accept women students “on the same terms as men”.
Eliza Rowdon Hall
Australian philanthropist
Elizabeth Austin
Australian philanthropist – Proclaimed on her death in 1910, as ‘a thoroughly good philanthropic woman’, in her time Austin provided a rare example of a woman with sufficient resources to make substantial donations in her own right.