Person    | Female  Born 1835  Died 5/10/1899

Jessie Craigen

Categories: Animals, Gender Issues, Medicine

Countries: Ireland

Jessie Craigen

Jessie Hannah Craigen was a working-class suffrage speaker. She was also a freelance (or 'paid agent') speaker in the campaigns for Irish Home Rule and the cooperative movement and against vivisection, compulsory vaccination, and the Contagious Diseases Acts. Her place of birth is uncertain. Died Ilford.

Kate Taylor has an interesting profile of Craigen, including an explanation of the lack of images.

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Jessie Craigen

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Fawcett frieze - 07, Craigen

It seems there are no images of Craigen, hence the lack of anything behind th...

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Bob, the street cat

Bob, the street cat

This photo shows Bob on James Bowen's shoulders at the Angel station.

Animal, Animals

1 memorial
Tattersalls race horse auctioneers

Tattersalls race horse auctioneers

Founded at Hyde Park Corner by Richard Tattersall (1724–1795) it stayed in the Tattersall family until about WW2.  The business had to move from 'the Corner' due to the lease running out and the la...

Group, Commerce, Animals

1 memorial
Trim

Trim

Close companion to Captain Matthew Flinders. Born on HMS Reliance while in the the Southern Indian Ocean. He accompanied Flinders around Australia and to Mauritius. Wikipedia has a lot to say about...

Animal, Animals

2 memorials
horses killed and injured in the terrorist bombing at Hyde Park

horses killed and injured in the terrorist bombing at Hyde Park

Seven horses were killed by the bomb or as an act of mercy shortly after.  One, Sefton, was critically injured but survived to become a celebrity.  The Daily Mail have another photo and an extremel...

Animal, Animals, Tragedy

1 memorial
Old Tom

Old Tom

This is the story......During the early 19th Century one of the most celebrated characters in the Market was Old Tom, a gander from Ostend who came to England by chance, due to his fascination with...

Animal, Animals

1 memorial