Emily Hobhouse

Emily Hobhouse (9 April 1860 – 8 June 1926) was a British welfare campaigner, who 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 for Boer women and children during the Second Boer War.

Read more about Emily Hobhouse:  Early Life, Second Anglo-Boer War, Conditions in The Camps, Fawcett Commission, Rehabilitation and Reconciliation, Later Life, South African Reverence