Founded by the merger of the National Central Society for Women's Suffrage and the Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage. In 1919 it was renamed the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship, Millicent Fawcett was its president for more than twenty years and described the group 'like a glacier; slow moving but unstoppable'.
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National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
We're not experts so we'll accept that the tree is a mulberry. And the tree e...
Naval officer. RN Lieut-Governor of Greenwich Hospital.
In 1792 Charles Gould (1726 – 1806), lawyer and politician, married Jane Morgan and in 1792 inherited her family’s property in Tredegar, Wales. At the same time he changed his name to Morgan and wa...
Inventor and adventurer. Born Woburn, Massachusetts. Having spied for the British in America he moved to England in 1776, was knighted by King George III, moved to Germany where he gained the titl...
Person, Politics & Administration, Science, France, Germany, USA
Born Chancery Lane. An unpopular Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Supported Charles I against Parliament and so the Long Parliament impeached him and he was beheaded on Tower Hill.
Born at 24 Grosvenor Square. Promoted many reform causes, connected with factories, children, mental illness, housing. Also supported the restoration of the Holy Land to the Jews. President of the ...
Person, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration, Social Welfare
