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	Emily Hobhouse, South African Conciliation Committee
		Emily Hobhouse was a British welfare campaigner mainly remembered for fighting the dreadful conditions inside the British concentration camps built during the Second Boer War in South Africa.
		Emily Hobhouse, the daughter of the Reginald Hobhouse and Caroline Trelawny, was born in Liskeard, Cornwall on 9th April, 1860.
		Hobhouse was also an opponent of British involvement in the World War I. In 1921 the people of South Africa raised £2,300 and sent it to her in gratitude for the work she had done for them during the Boer War.
	www.cornwall-calling.co.uk /famous-cornish-people/hobhouse.htm (620 words)

	Emily Hobhouse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		In 1899 Emily Hobhouse was appointed secretary of the South African Conciliation Committee, which was a group that opposed the British government policy regarding South Africa.
		Hobhouse was a humanitarian and pacifist who came to visit South Africa in December 1900, during the Anglo Boer War.
		Hobhouse was not part of this government commission, but it was her actions that put into play the forces that led to reform.
	www.sahistory.org.za /pages/people/hobhouse-e.htm (318 words)

	Emily Hobhouse
		Emily discovered "that there was a scarcity of essential provision and that the accommodation was wholly inadequate." When she complained about the lack of soap she was told, "soap is an article of luxury".
		Emily decided that she had to return to England in an effort to persuade the Marquess of Salisbury and his government to bring an end to the British Army's scorched earth and concentration camp policy.
		Hobhouse was not asked to be a member of the committee and complained that Fawcett had already made statements in favour of British concentration camps.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Whobhouse.htm (1861 words)

	Emily Hobhouse - Campaigner- Cornwall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Emily Hobhouse was born in 1860 at St Ive near Liskeard.
		Emily received a sparse education at home and remained in Cornwall throughout her early life, nursing her father until his death in 1895.
		Emily Hobhouse was also an opponent of British involvement in the First World War, once again campaigning to help women and children affected by the conflict.
	www.cornwalls.co.uk /history/people/emily_hobhouse.htm (279 words)

	Anglo Boer War Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Emily Hobhouse was not included in the committee.
		It was only after she had met the Boer generals and had learnt from them that the distress of the women and children in the concentration camps had contributed to their final resolution that her grief was displaced by admiration.
		Emily Hobhouse and two helpers, came out on the same boat that brought President Steyn back from Europe in 1905.
	www.anglo-boer.co.za /emily.html (3920 words)

	South African Association of Art Historians
		The British philanthropist Emily Hobhouse is principally renowned for her exposure of conditions in the concentration camps for Boer women and children during the Second South African War.
		Emily Hobhouse and Florence Phillips may therefore have met in 1906, but they are unlikely to have had any social contact, being on opposite sides of the political and social spectrum.
		Emily Hobhouse learnt spinning, weaving and lace-making in order to understand the workings of these crafts and to impart skills in the schools in which she taught with a couple of assistants.
	home.intekom.com /southafricanhistoryonline/pages/artsmediaculture/pages/heritage-orgs/saaah/article1-carman-j.htm (3707 words)

	hist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Emily Hobhouse was born the 9th of April, 1860 and died 8 June, 1926.
		In 1876 Emily was sent to a finishing school in London but as there was no money she did not complete her schooling She was, however, able to get some music and painting lessons in Liskeard.
		For fourteen years Emily took care of her father who was often unwell.
	www.50connect.co.uk /50c/articlepages/genealogy_index.asp?sc=hist&aID=7813 (958 words)

	Biographies of Special South Africans - Emily Hobhouse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		She was born the 9th of April, 1860 and raised in the tiny village of St. Ive near Liskeard in East Cornwall.
		She retired to the mountains of Savoy in the south of France to recuperate and and it was there that she heard news that the Peace of Vereeniging had been signed and that the Boers had lost their independence.
		Emily and two helpers then went to South Africa in 1905, equipped with the required apparatus to teach the women the art of spinning and weaving.
	zar.co.za /emily.htm (2820 words)

	Concentration camp
		Though they were not extermination camps, the Boer camps were noted for their poor nutrition and bad hygiene, and the associated high mortality rates.
		The Boer situation was only relieved when Emily Hobhouse[?] brought the conditions in the camps to the attention of the British public.
		The first large-scale confinement of a specific ethnic group in detention centers began in the summer of 1838, when President Jackson ordered the U.S. Army to enforce the Indian Removal Act of 1830 by rounding up the Cherokee into prison camps before relocating them.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/co/Concentration_camp.html (1040 words)

	#14
		One of the halls in the museum is dedicated to Emily Hobhouse, that most remarkable woman who did relief work amongst the inhabitants of the concentration camps in spite of heavy opposition from her fellow countrymen.
		A set of watercolour paintings by Emily Hobhouse demonstrates her very personal view of the "scorched earth" policy and the destruction of the war.
		The ashes of Emily Hobhouse are buried in a niche at the foot of the Memorial to honour this remarkable woman who did so much to lessen the suffering of the women and children and to improve conditions in the concentration camps.
	members.fortunecity.com /buddiesviawia/myworldviawia/id24.html (1491 words)

	Review Awino (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Some, like Emily Hobhouse and Pauline Smith, were born elsewhere, but spent a significant portion of their lives in South Africa and were profoundly influenced by their experiences here.
		Emily Hobhouse's excerpt also draws the reader back to the realities of an era gone by.
		Hobhouse was a British woman who became a campaigner for the rights of Britain's most exploited workers.
	www.feministafrica.org /05-2005/review-awino.htm (1717 words)

	The Concentration Camps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Emily Hobhouse writes: "I have in my possession coffee and sugar which were described as follows by a London analyst: In the case of the first, 66% imitation, and in the case of the second, sweepings from a warehouse."
		Emily Hobhouse tells the story of the young Lizzie van Zyl who died in the Bloemfontein concentration camp: "She was a frail, weak little child in desperate need of good care.
		However, the Boerevolk remains grateful towards Emily Hobhouse for her efforts and her remains are resting in a place of honour under the Women's Monument in Bloemfontein.
	www.boer.co.za /boerwar/hellkamp.htm (3945 words)

	IRAWA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Emily Hobhouse scored first, but was dominated in their half within the first few minutes of the game.
		Hobhouse, however, managed to hold off resistance towards the end of the first half despite the height advantage Vergeet-My-Nie had.
		Hobhouse put on a splendid effort to try and counter-attack, but their efforts were in vain.
	www.uovs.ac.za /current_students/irawa?newspaper/web/view/336 (232 words)

	BBC - Radio 4 Empire - Second Boer War and the concentration camps. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		When the Liberal campaigner Emily Hobhouse visited the Bloemfontein camp in January 1901 she was appalled at the conditions for the nearly 2,000 prisoners.
		)Emily Hobhouse was born in Cornwall, the sister of Leonard Hobhouse 1864-1929, the social philosopher.
		After her death her ashes were placed in the Women's Memorial at Bloemfontein and a town in Eastern Free State was named Hobhouse.
	www.mintproxy.com /index.php?q=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5iYmMuY28udWsvcmFkaW80L2hpc3RvcnkvZW1waXJlL2VwaXNvZGVzL2VwaXNvZGVfNzEuc2h0bWw= (1093 words)

	25 July 1901 - Emily Hobhouse addresses public meetings in Britain on the concentration camps
		Emily Hobhouse addressed public meetings in Britain about the conditions of the Concentration camps during the South African War.
		These are some of the reasons that prompted Emily Hobhouse to go around Britain and appeal for the camps' conditions to be improved.
		To strengthen her case, Emily Hobhouse wrote a report to the Committee of the Distress Fund in which she detailed the camps' conditions.
	home.intekom.com /southafricanhistoryonline/pages/chronology/thisday/1901-07-25.htm (567 words)

	L. T. Hobhouse
		Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse, the youngest son of Rev. Reginald Hobhouse and Caroline Trelawny, and the brother of Emily Hobhouse, was born in St. Ives, Cornwall on 8th September, 1864.
		In 1907 Hobhouse became Professor of Sociology at London University.
		By 1917 Hobhouse had become disillusioned by the growing number of casualties and urged a negotiated peace.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Jhobhouse.htm (312 words)

	Anglo Boer War Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The visit of the British humanitarian, Miss Emily Hobhouse, a delegate of the South African Women and Children's Distress Fund to the camps in the southern Orange Free State led to an improvement in the conditions.
		On her return to Britain the story she told of the conditions under which the women and children had to live shocked everyone not committed to believe in the inevibility of the war and the harsh measures that was to end it.
		From August to December 1901 the Fawcett Commssion visited the different camps and presented their report in December confirming in all essentials the accuracy of Emily Hobhouse's account.
	www.anglo-boer.co.za /concentration.html (431 words)

	Museum Transgariep
		Philip and the London's Missionary association, the Griqua age of Adam Kok II and Adam Kok III, Emily Hobhouse and her spin- and weaveschool and a picture cabinet with early leader figures of the town.
		Behind the Museum on the hill the visitor can still see two cannons which was used by Adam Kok, as well as a ``Griquakraal" next to the library; this ``kraal" makes out part of the Griqua Culture.
		The two rooms which is furnished for Emily Hobhouse and her spin- and weaveschool in the backyard, is also one of its kind in them museums in the Province.
	www.places.co.za /html/transgariep_museum.html (871 words)

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		Hobhouse, the daughter of a principled English clergyman, learned early in life the importance of living up to her beliefs.
		But Emily Hobhouse noticed, and made it her business to harass the British government through research, publicity and confrontation.
		Hobhouse made herself unpopular with the government (which tried to ignore her) and with a large segment of Britain's population (who reviled her) - but in the end the British government relented by improving conditions markedly in the camps.
	www.consultant-network.ca /agora/articles/hero.htm (3687 words)

	Emily Greene Balch, Peace Delegates in Scandinavia and Russia, Sept. 1915
		Document 14: Emily Greene Balch, "Peace Delegates in Scandinavia and Russia," The Survey, 34 (4 September 1915), pp.
		In this article, Emily Greene Balch described the positive reception that she and the other delegates received on the peace tour in May and June of 1915.
		Balch conveys her sense of the importance of continuing the peace mission and her excitement about the possibility of peace.
	womhist.binghamton.edu /hague/doc14.htm (2056 words)

	Cape Town & Environs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		TANT' ALIE OF TRANSVAAL: her diary, 1880-1902; translated from the taal by Emily Hobhouse, with preface.
		The women are Emily Hobhouse, Johanna van Warmelo and Lady Sarah Wilson (Winston Churchill's aunt).
		Major Trevor served in the British Army during the Boer War (he was at Mafeking during the Siege) and in German South West Africa and German East Africa during WW1.
	www.selectbooks.co.za /Catalogue30/30SAwar.htm (785 words)

	January/February 1999 newsletter - Durban - South African Military History Society - Title page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Our speaker continued with the arrival of Emily Hobhouse and her subsequent report to the Opposition Liberal party in England, which drew public attention to the plight of these Boer women and children.
		Their brief was to investigate and report on the claims made by Emily Hobhouse.
		After a four-month inspection tour of the various Concentration Camps in Southern Africa, their findings, for the most part, concurred with Emily Hobhouse's complaints and a vast improvement resulted in spite of the on-going typhoid epidemic, which added to the catastrophe.
	rapidttp.com /milhist/99/d99febne.html (1901 words)

	SOME REMARKABLE EUROPEAN WOMEN WHO HELPED GANDHIJI IN SOUTH AFRICA
		Emily Hobhouse, daughter of a churchman in Britain, dedicated herself to the movement in Britain against the Anglo-Boer War.
		Her visits to the concentration camps in South Africa where Boer women and children were confined - and thousands perished - and her campaign in Britain to help the victims of this dirty war had much to do with the ending of the war.
		She had met many Indians at the home of her uncle, Lord (Arthur) Hobhouse, who was a Law Member of the Council of the Government of India and later of the Privy Council.
	www.anc.org.za /ancdocs/history/people/gandhi/6.html (5381 words)

	Gorseth Kernow - The Gorseth of Cornwall: The Open Gorseth, Pensilva, Cornwall, September 7th 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		There is an old right of way from the manor to the church in St. lve, which is said to have been established by the Knights Templar of St John.
		The famous benefactress Emily Hobhouse (1860-1926) hailed from Pensilva.
		Emily, whose mother was a Trelawney and whose father was an archdeacon, was a tireless worker.
	www.gorsethkernow.org.uk /english/news/pensilva/penshist.htm (302 words)

	Shula Marks on the South African War
		Nevertheless, Hobhouse does appear on the margins in several of these papers, including in Jacqueline Beaumont's account of The Times's coverage of British atrocities in which pro- Boers, like Emily Hobhouse, were blamed for prolonging the war.
		Hobhouse also makes a brief appearance in Elizabeth van Heyningen's moving and insightful piece on the 'clash of medical cultures in the concentration camps' - as does her pro-imperial counterpart, Millicent Fawcett, who produced her own whitewash of the camps.
		[9] Perhaps Hobhouse's finest moment, however, was at the unveiling of the Women's Monument in Bloemfontein in 1913, dedicated to the women and children who died in the South African War, which she did so much to inspire and promote: this forms part of the subject of Albert Grundlingh's paper in Writing a Wider War.
	www.h-net.org /~africa/reviews/ReviewEssays/ShulaMarks.htm (9914 words)

	Philippolis
		Emily Hobhouse het ook in die spesiale dorpie 'n belangrike rol gespeel.
		Emily Hobhouse is one of the famous people that had a great influence in Philippolis.
		She started a weaving school to help the Boer woman and their families to recoup financially after the Anglo Boer War.
	www.philippolis.org.za /philippolis.htm (562 words)

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