Henry Fawcett

British politician and economist

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association with Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett

  • Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett
    In Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett

    In April 1867 Millicent married Henry Fawcett, a radical politician and professor of political economy at Cambridge. She helped him to overcome the handicap of his blindness, while he supported her work for women’s rights, beginning with her first speech on the subject of woman suffrage (1868).

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