DEATH OF NOTED WOMAN

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 734, 6 August 1929, Page 9

DEATH OF NOTED WOMAN

DAME MILLICENT FAWCETT, AGED 82 (Australian and 2\ T.Z. Press Association) (United Service) LONDON, Monday. The death is announced of Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett, political essayist and biographer, aged 82. Damo Millicent Fawcett, widow of the Kt. Hon. Henry Fawcett, wrote various works on economics. She was an early worker for women’s suffrage, and in 1907 became president of the united movement. She was opposed to the militant methods of some suffragettes. Her own plans included an alliance with the Labour Party in 1912, by which the women agreed to support Labour candidates in preference to Liberals when the latter proved unsatisfactory on the suffrage question. She resigned the presidency of the National Union in 1919. In 1912 Mrs. Fawcett produced her work, “Women’s Suffrage,” and her other books include Lives of Queen Victoria (1895) and Sir William Molesworth (1901), and “Five Famous Frenchwomen” (1906). Her sister was Mrs. Garrett Anderson, M.D., the first woman Mayor in England. Her only child, Philippa Garrett Fawcett, had a distinguished career at Newnham College, Cambridge, where, in 1890, she was bracketed equal to the senior wrangler, being indeed ahead of him. In 1905 Mrs Fawcett became principal assistant in the education officer’s department of the London County Council. In 1920 she was made a justice of the peace, and on January 3, 1925, was created a Dame of the Order of the British Empire. She also received an honorary degree (LL.D.) from St. Andrew’s University.