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OriginalMillicent Fawcett, suffragist, governor of Bedford College, London, co-founder of Newnham College, Cambridge, president of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, and, 1901 she was appointed to lead the British government's commission to South Africa investigating conditions in the concentration camps that had been created there in the wake of the Second Boer War. Oh, and she was the first woman to get a statue in Parliament Square this year.
Reason
Another fine, well-sourced image that vastly improves on what was there before, to whit, [1]
Articles in which this image appears
Millicent Fawcett and (in no particular order as she seems fairly prominent in all of them) August 1901, Conservative and Unionist Women's Franchise Association, International Alliance of Women, List of suffragists and suffragettes, National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, South African Wars (1879–1915)
FP category for this image
WP:Featured pictures/People/Political, maybe? She was kind of a lot of things.
Creator
Bain News Service/Elliott & Fry, restored by Adam Cuerden

Promoted File:Millicent Fawcett.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 07:20, 17 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]