invited by Pat Cove
Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett, GBE
Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett, GBE (1847-1929)
English suffragist. She took a moderate line in
campaigning for the vote for women, as opposed
to the Suffragettes’ more violent methods. She
struggled to improve women’s opportunities for higher
education and in 1871 co-founded Newnham College,
Cambridge. She became president of the National
Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).
In 1901 she was appointed to lead the British
Government’s commission to investigate conditions
in the concentration camps in South Africa
after the Boer War.
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