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Elizabeth Gaskell 1810 – 1865
Novellist and social reformer
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Annie Horniman 1860 – 1937
Repertory theatre founder and patron of the arts
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Sunny Lowry 1911 – 2008
First British woman to swim the Channel
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Kathleen Ollerenshaw 1912 – 2014
Mathematician, Councillor, educationalist and advisor to Margaret Thatcherr