Millicent Fawcett, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Millicent Fawcett

English suffragist

Date of Birth: 11-Jun-1847

Place of Birth: Aldeburgh, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 05-Aug-1929

Profession: writer, politician, feminist

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett (11 June 1847 – 5 August 1929) was an English political leader, activist and writer.
Known as a tireless campaigner for women's suffrage via legislative change, from 1897 until 1919 she led Britain's largest women's rights organisation, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).
She would famously write: "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."Fawcett also sought to improve women's chances of higher education, serving as a governor of Bedford College, London (now Royal Holloway) and a co-founder of Newnham College, Cambridge in 1875.In 2018, 100 years after the passing of the Representation of the People Act, for which Fawcett had successfully campaigned and which granted limited franchise, she became the first woman to be commemorated with a statue in Parliament Square.
British Prime Minister Theresa May noted: "I would not be standing here today as Prime Minister, no female MPs would have taken their seats in Parliament, none of us would have the rights we now enjoy, were it not for one truly great woman: Dame Millicent Garret Fawcett."