# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edith-rigby
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:21:40.505Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edith-rigby"
name: "Edith Rigby"
slug: "edith-rigby"
description: "Edith Rigby was an English suffragette who used arson as a way to further the cause of women's suffrage. She founded a night school in Preston called St Peter's School, aimed at educating women and girls. Later she became a prominent activist, and was incarcerated seven times and committed several acts of arson. She was a contemporary of Christabel and Sylvia Pankhurst."
tagline: "English suffragette"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Edith_Rigby_(1872%E2%80%931948).JPG?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1872-10-18"
deathDate: "1950-07-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.33
  momentum:             7.587527352297593
  historical:           7.683262666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Edith Rigby"
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    title: "إيدث ريغبي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Edith Rigby"
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  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Rigby"
    title: "Edith Rigby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Rigby"
    title: "Edith Rigby"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Rigby"
    title: "Edith Rigby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Rigby"
    title: "Edith Rigby"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Rigby"
    title: "Edith Rigby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%8E%E0%B4%A1%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8D_%E0%B4%B1%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%97%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AC%E0%B4%BF"
    title: "എഡിത്ത് റിഗ്ബി"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5338655"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump