A bronze statue of this accomplished lady will be unveiled today in Parliament Square - the first of a woman there.

Suffragette and feminist, she was born/educated in the lovely seaside town of Aldeburgh.

Her sister was Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, this nation's first female doctor.

Only now is the role of these women - Pankhurst and the likes - being acknowledged, in beginning the changes to our aristocracy led country.


To a more equal one...

I thought that a statue of Margaret Thatcher, as the first female PM, would have been more fitting.

Other, less well known, suffragettes might lay claim to Millicent Fawcett's achievement, but there was only one first British female Prime Minister.

Westminster Council rejected a plan for a Thatcher statue.

Just like Blair seems to have been rejected for a KG.

A title that MT received - like most PMs; there can only be 24.

I wonder if there will be a Lily Parr statue next to Fawcett?

Another lady who was well ahead of her time!

Some other successful lady rightly said - 'the only thing men can do better is pee standing up'.

Hopefully soon, there will be more ladies around Parliament Square.


The end of a mandatory male club, for silent ones only....