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Henry Fawcett, close up of Fawcett Memorial in Victoria Embankment Gardens, London Fawcett's name on the Reformers Monument, Kensal Green Cemetery. Henry Fawcett (26 August 1833 – 6 November 1884) was a British academic, statesman and economist.
In April 1867 Millicent married Henry Fawcett, a radical politician and professor of political economy at Cambridge. She helped him to overcome the handicap of his blindness, while he supported her work for women’s rights, beginning with her first speech on the subject of woman suffrage (1868).
24 de jun. de 2020 · Henry Fawcett, Parliamentary Archives, PHO/11/1/4/7. It was a late summer’s day in 1858, a tall young man was walking amongst the countryside of his native county of Wiltshire. He found himself ahead of a shooting party when accidentally one of its number fired awry at a flock of partridges and shot him in the eyes.
Hace 5 días · Henry and Millicent Fawcett. Philanthropist and Statesman. In the chapel of St George in Westminster Abbey, near the west door, is a joint memorial to Henry Fawcett, politician, and his wife Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett.
24 de abr. de 2021 · Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge, MP and Postmaster General, Henry Fawcett (1833–84) was a radical supporter of both feminism and class equality. He campaigned for the widening of access to universities and the preservation of public open spaces, and oversaw the development of the telephone network.
When Henry Fawcett died in 1884 he was among the most famous men of his age. From a relatively humble background he had risen to become Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge, a Liberal MP and a minister in Gladstone's second government.
1 de ene. de 2016 · Born on 26 August 1833, the son of a Salisbury draper, Henry Fawcett died on 6 November 1884, by which time he had been Professor of Political Economy in the University of Cambridge since 1863, a Liberal MP since 1864, and Postmaster General under Gladstone since...
