Besant, Mrs. Annie, née Wood, born in London; of Irish descent; married to an English clergyman, from whom she was legally separated; took a keen interest in social questions and secularism; drifted into theosophy, of which she is now an active propagandist; is an interesting woman, and has an interesting address as a lecturer; (b. 1847).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Besançon * Besant, Sir Walter