#johanhoekstra

Emily Hobhouse (1860-1926)

Country: South Africa

Issued: June 8, 1976

Face value: 4c

Catalog Codes: Mi ZA 504; Sn ZA 469; Yt ZA 409; Sg ZA 408

Description: Johan Hoekstra

Emily Hobhouse (9 April 1860 – 8 June 1926) was a British welfare campaigner, feminist, and pacifist.[1][2][3] She is primarily remembered for bringing to the attention of the British public, and working to change, the deprived conditions inside the British concentration camps in South Africa built to incarcerate Boer women and children during the Second Boer War.