Alice Gooderidge
Staffordshire woman convicted of witchcraft in 1596 on the false testimony of a 14-year-old boy.
English, Female, Witch
English
English, Female, Writer
Juliana Horatia Ewing
English writer of children’s stories, whose 1865 book The Brownies gave Agnes Baden-Powell the idea and the name for the junior level of the Girl Guides.
English, Female, Suffragist
Gladys Pott
An English anti-suffragist and civil servant, author of The Anti-Suffrage Handbook of Facts, Statistics and Quotations for the Use of Speakers
English, Female, Suffragist
Katherine Harley
Suffragist who in 1913 organised the Great Pilgrimage, a march along six routes to converge on Hyde Park, London, where a rally in support of women’s suffrage was held.
Cook, English, Female
Mary Eales
18th-century writer on cookery and confectionery, author of Mrs Mary Eales’s Receipts (1718)
Cartoonist, English, Male
Donald McGill
English graphic artist whose name has become synonymous with the genre of saucy postcards, particularly associated with the seaside.
Actor, Comedian, English, Male, Music hall, Pantomime
Herbert Campbell
English comedian and actor who appeared in music hall, burlesques and musical comedies during the Victorian era.
Comedian, English, Male, Music hall, Singer
Mark Sheridan
English music-hall comedian and singer, whose recording popularised the song “I do like to be beside the Seaside”.
English stage actor, comedian, clown and dancer.