page_title: Millicent Fawcett
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Millicent Fawcett / Biography
caption_attribution_description: English: "My father and mother in their old age."
context_page_description: Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett GBE was an English political leader, writer and feminist icon. Known for campaigning for women's suffrage through legislative change, she led Britain's largest women's rights organisation, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies from 1897 until 1919. She would 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 tried to improve women's chances of higher education, serving as a governor of Bedford College, London, and a co-founder of Newnham College, Cambridge, in 1875. In 2018, 100 years after the passing of the Representation of the People Act, Fawcett became the first woman to be commemorated with a statue in Parliament Square.
caption: Fawcett's parents, Newson and Louisa Garrett, in their old age
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