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Millicent Fawcett

1847 - 1929

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Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett (née Garrett; 11 June 1847 – 5 August 1929) was an English political activist and writer. She campaigned for women's suffrage by legal change and in 1897–1919 led Britain's largest women's rights association, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), explaining, "I cannot say I became a suffragist. I always was one, from the time I was old enough to think at all about the principles of Representative Government." She tried to broaden women's chances of higher education, as a governor of Bedford College, London (now Royal Holloway) and co-founding Newnham College, Cambridge in 1871. In 2018, a century after the Representation of the People Act, she was the first woman honoured by a statue in Parliament Square. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Millicent Fawcett is the 316th most popular social activist (down from 290th in 2019), the 2,352nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,874th in 2019) and the 20th most popular British Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Millicent Fawcett ranks 316 out of 840. Before her are Martin Guerre, Hanns Martin Schleyer, Kazimierz Świątek, Mohamed Bouazizi, Yagan, and Ashin Wirathu. After her are Maria Altmann, Susannah Mushatt Jones, Maurice Bishop, Greta Thunberg, Jesse Jackson, and Lucretia Mott.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1847, Millicent Fawcett ranks 51. Before her are Bertha Wegmann, Princess Margherita of Bourbon-Parma, Margarete Steiff, Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, Augusta Holmès, and Joseph Achille Le Bel. After her are Karl Wittgenstein, Julia Lermontova, Pavel Yablochkov, Remus von Woyrsch, Oku Yasukata, and Ida Saxton McKinley. Among people deceased in 1929, Millicent Fawcett ranks 70. Before her are Gotō Shinpei, Carlo Airoldi, Clemens von Pirquet, Mahidol Adulyadej, António José de Almeida, and Léon Delacroix. After her are Vasil Radoslavov, Nasreddine Dinet, Tsuda Umeko, Sergei Nilus, Hans Meyer, and Charles Fox Parham.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Millicent Fawcett ranks 2,352 out of 8,785. Before her are Cary Elwes (1962), Cecil Beaton (1904), Chris Bristow (1937), David Stirling (1915), John Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey (1885), and John Hughes (1814). After her are Ken Tyrrell (1924), Paul W. S. Anderson (1965), Marie Stopes (1880), Tim Rice (1944), Glen Johnson (1984), and Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United Kingdom

Among social activists born in United Kingdom, Millicent Fawcett ranks 20. Before her are Kate Sheppard (1848), Unity Mitford (1914), Eglantyne Jebb (1876), Wat Tyler (1341), Mary Dyer (1611), and Cassivellaunus (-100). After her are Allan Octavian Hume (1829), Venetia Burney (1918), Josephine Butler (1828), Sylvia Pankhurst (1882), Charles Boycott (1832), and Robert Catesby (1573).

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