Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett GBE
(1847-1929)
woman, pioneer of women's suffrage, president of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, and Dame Grand Cross of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (from 1925)
Family tree
Commemorated on 5 plaques
Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett 1847-1929 pioneer of women's suffrage lived and died here
2 Gower Street, Camden, WC1, London, United Kingdom where they lived and died (1929)
1833-1884 Henry Fawcett Born in Salisbury in 1833. Blinded in a shooting accident, he became Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge University and a Liberal MP. He campaigned for equal rights for women and married Millicent Garrett. Appointed Postmaster General in 1880 he reformed the Post Office by introducing the sixpenny telegram, tablets on letterboxes to show collection times; a savings scheme and postal orders. He introduced the Parcel Post service in 1883. Millicent became the president of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies and played a key role in persuading Parliament to give women the vote. Henry Fawcett died in 1884.
statue, market place, just off Blue Boar Row, Salisbury, United Kingdom where they was
Leader of the women's suffrage movement Millicent Fawcett 1847-1929 was born here
The Uplands, Victoria Street, Aldeburgh, United Kingdom where they was born (1847)
60 years a campaigner for women's suffrage Millicent Garrett Fawcett 1847-1929 lived here.
Alde House, Alde House Drive, Aldeburgh, United Kingdom where they lived
Millicent Garrett Fawcett [full inscription unknown]
18 Brookside, Cambridge, United Kingdom where they was