Millicent Garrett Fawcett

Millicent Garrett Fawcett was an English political activist and writer who led the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, Britain's largest women's rights association, from 1897 to 1919. She campaigned for the vote through changes in the law and distanced herself from the militancy of the Women's Social and Political Union. She co-founded what became Newnham College, Cambridge, in 1871, and in 1901 led a commission of women sent to investigate the concentration camps of the South African War. In 2018 she became the first woman honoured with a statue in Parliament Square, London.