Annie Besant
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Annie Besant was an English socialist, theosophist, freemason, women's rights and activist, educationist, involved in women's rights, Home Rule, and Indian nationalism. She gave support to both Irish
Annie Besant as a young woman
St. Margaret's church in Sibsey, Lincolnshire, where Frank Besant was vicar from 1872 to 1917
Annie Besant's house, 39 Colby Road, Upper Norwood, now bearing a blue plaque
Studio portrait of Besant, c. 1910
Mabel Besant-Scott
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Mabel "Mabs" Emily Besant-Scott was a Theosophist, Co-Freemason and Rosicrucian.
Annie Besant
…Chancellor—who was Lord Hatherley, a Wood family connection, son of Sir Matthew Wood, 1st Baronet. The Besant family, with their two children, Arthur and Mabel, moved to Sibsey, but the marriage was already under strain. As Besant wrote in her Autobiography, "we were an ill-matched pair". Money was short and…
Besant-Scott, c. 1878