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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 1875. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Millicent Fawcett has received more than 881,619 page views. Her biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Millicent Fawcett is the 289th most popular social activist (up from 298th in 2019), the 1,874th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,144th in 2019) and the 19th most popular British Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Millicent Fawcett ranks 289 out of 840. Before her are Christabel Pankhurst, Mentor of Rhodes, Jesse Jackson, Cho Man-sik, David Frankfurter, and Policarpa Salavarrieta. After her are Feodosia Morozova, Bipin Chandra Pal, Maurice Bishop, Pavel Pestel, François-Jean de la Barre, and Ken Saro-Wiwa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1847, Millicent Fawcett ranks 43. Before her are Ferdinand Fellner, Nakano Takeko, Robert Fuchs, Julia Lermontova, Anton Reichenow, and Afonso Pena. After her are Josip Belušić, Giuseppe Giacosa, Oku Yasukata, Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, Augusta Holmès, and Margarete Steiff. Among people deceased in 1929, Millicent Fawcett ranks 58. Before her are Clemens von Pirquet, Sergei Nilus, Adolf Meyer, Henri Gervex, José Batlle y Ordóñez, and Elfrida Andrée. After her are Hans Delbrück, P. J. Kennedy, Princess Olga Paley, Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, António José de Almeida, and Vasil Radoslavov.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Millicent Fawcett ranks 1,874 out of 8,785. Before her are Prasutagus (50), Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (1390), David Coulthard (1971), Ken Tyrrell (1924), Herbert Chapman (1878), and Andrew Bertie (1929). After her are Pauline Moran (1947), John Watson (1946), Frederick Copleston (1907), Lilian Harvey (1906), Steve Howe (1947), and Alexander William Williamson (1824).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United Kingdom

Among social activists born in United Kingdom, Millicent Fawcett ranks 19. Before her are Kate Sheppard (1848), Eglantyne Jebb (1876), Cassivellaunus (-100), Wat Tyler (1341), Allan Octavian Hume (1829), and Christabel Pankhurst (1880). After her are Unity Mitford (1914), Charles Boycott (1832), Robert Catesby (1573), James Guillaume (1844), Venetia Burney (1918), and Mary Dyer (1611).

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