President of NUWSS prior to Millicent Fawcett and campaigned for voting rights of unmarried women and widows. Also an amateur scientist with interests in biology and astronomy. Best remembered for founding and publishing the Women's Suffrage Journal, 1870-90. Born Manchester. Died France.
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Rev. Claude Hinscliff
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Radclyffe Hall
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Sir Roger Cook
Lord Mayor of London, in September 1997.
Fawcett frieze - 04, Becker
SW1, Parliament Square
Most statues have plinths, which often carry the identity of the statue but little more. The plinth for this Millicent Fawcett statue is ...
Frédéric Chopin
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Benjamin Waugh
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