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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.
Henry Fawcett. British politician and economist. Learn about this topic in these articles: association with Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett. In Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett. In April 1867 Millicent married Henry Fawcett, a radical politician and professor of political economy at Cambridge.
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.
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.
24 de jun. de 2020 · Continuing our series of blogs on disability history, this is the life and times of Britain’s first blind MP. An inspiring story of determination, love and liberalism. 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 ...
30 de oct. de 2020 · First things first we must mention Henry Fawcett. He was the first blind MP that we know of and became a well-renowned figure in Victorian Britain. Before his death in 1885 he’d enjoyed a nineteen-year Parliamentary career. Making a name for himself as a political reformer focusing on voting rights.
This book examines aspects of his life and career - his personal life, including his friendship with the critic and writer, Leslie Stephen, and his marriage to Millicent Garrett Fawcett, the famous feminist; his intellectual contribution to Victorian culture as a friend and disciple of John Stuart Mill; his influential role as a populariser of ...
