Philanthropy Archives - Page 9 of 15

English writer. She published numerous works, chiefly educational, including Mental Improvement, Leisure Hours, Reflections on the Present Condition of the Female Sex, with Hints for its Improvement and several volumes of descriptive geography.

Agnes Ryan

Irish teacher, activist and philanthropist

Mary Carpenter

English philanthropist and author active in working for the benefit of orphaned or neglected children.

Margaret Dockrell

Irish suffragist, philanthropist, and councillor

Amelia Randall

Amelia Mary Randall, although quiet and unassuming, was during the early twentieth century one of the wealthiest women in Hawke’s Bay, and an important public benefactor.

Dorothy Michaelis Theomin

New Zealand philanthropist

Emily White

Emily White made a significant contribution to community and horticultural life in New Zealand, and was her adopted country’s first woman gardening author of note.