British Government Puts First Statue of a Woman in Parliament Square; Choice is Suffragist Millicent Fawcett

Parliament Square is London’s most prestigious public gathering space. It adjoins the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, the Supreme Court Building, and executive offices. For many decades, only eleven statues have been placed in Parliament Square, all of men. But now the first statue depicting a woman has been added to the Square: a statue of Millicent Fawcett, a leading fighter for votes for women. See this story. Thanks to Thomas Jones for the link.


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British Government Puts First Statue of a Woman in Parliament Square; Choice is Suffragist Millicent Fawcett — 9 Comments

  1. What did W.C. think of her ???

    IE What percentage of female voters voted for Labour in July 1945 ???

    — to de facto END the British *Empire*

    — and make the UK a 5th class (or worse) leftwing socialist power.

  2. Have to be gone X years before statue worthy ???

    – esp in the 1066 DARK AGE UK regime having NO written constitution.

    See ye olde Bills/Acts of Attainer — esp. when there was a regime change

    — death ordered by a law for named persons in former/current regime

    — a few repeals of such acts by an even later regime
    — NO real help for the murdered dead — except perhaps property for relatives.

    See ban on any such Bills of Attainer in USA const.

  3. @DR, most of those who had been Prime Minister had statues within 11 years of death. Most were 19th Century. The only 20th century were Winston Churchill and David Lloyd George, who were PM during the two World Wars. Lloyd George had to wait 62 years.Mill

    Nelson Mandela’s was unveiled 6 years before his death. Those of Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Gandhi, and Millicent Fawcett were were unveiled more than a half century after their death.

  4. Statue today — scrap tomorrow ???

    Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, various USA Civil War Confederates in New Age southern state regimes.

    Any chance for George Mason (writer of most of the WRITTEN 1776 VA Const), USA General/President George Washington, Pres. Thomas Jefferson (1776 DOI), Pres. James Madison (much of 1787 USA Const, War of 1812), Patrick Henry, etc. to have a statue next to a Brit in Parliament Square ???

    ANY statues (in public) of 1776 Brit King George III in the USA ???

  5. The statues of Mandela and Gandhi were gifts of their governments. Perhaps the USA could provide a statue of Washington.

    Incidentally, Parliament Square includes Jan Smuts. That is probably why there was a Mandela statue before his death.

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