Political and women's rights activist. Conservative and Unionist Women’s Franchise Association.
Born Marylebone as Beatrix Maud Gascoyne-Cecil. 1883 married the Liberal politician William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne. 1905-10 he was posted to South Africa where she promoted votes for women.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Maud Palmer, Countess of Selborne
The first qualified female supersonic pilot and the first to fly Concorde. Born at the house with the plaque, she was raised in Bognor Regis and left school aged 15 to become a hairdresser but the...
Suffragist and leading member of Women’s Liberal Federation. Eva Maria McLaren (née Müller; was an English suffragist, writer and campaigner. She served as Superintendent of the Franchise departm...
Writer, philosopher and feminist before her time. Born Primrose Street, Spitalfields. Her radical book "Vindication of the Rights of Woman" (1792) in which she described marriage as "legal prostitu...
Person, Education, Gender Issues, Philosophy, Seriously Famous, Denmark, France, Norway, Sweden
The wonderful Spitalfields Life published a map on the East End Suffragette activities. And London Historians has a post 'Parliament and Votes for Women'.
From Bridge to Nowhere: "The Female Friendly Society {sic} was started in 1802, by and for women, operating “by love, kindness, and absence of humbug”. It gave small grants to “poor, aged women of ...
Unveiled by Prince William at Australia House on 18 July 2014 and installed in Euston Station's main hall the following day. Moved to the...
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