Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847–1929)

Leader of the constitutional women’s suffrage movement and author. Sister of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson. Married Henry Fawcett in 1867. Wrote on women’s education, women’s suffrage, and economics, as well as two novels. Co-founder of Newnham College in 1875, and served on its council. Committee member of the London National Society for Women’s Suffrage from 1867. Spoke and lectured on women’s issues and other political subjects in the 1870s. Emerged as the women’s suffrage movement’s leader after the death of Lydia Ernestine Becker in 1890. Honorary LLD, University of St Andrews, 1899. President of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1907–19. Dame Grand Cross of the British Empire, 1925.