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Dame Millicent Fawcett GBE (June 11, 1847 – August 5, 1929) was a British suffragist (as opposed to a suffragette) and an early feminist.
She was born Millicent Garrett in Aldeburgh, Suffolk. As a suffragist, she took a moderate line, but was a tireless campaigner, concentrating much of her energy on the struggle to improve women's opportunities for higher education. In 1871, she co-founded Newnham College, Cambridge. She later became president of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (the NUWSS), a position she held from 1897 until 1919.
In July 1901 she was appointed to lead the British Government's appointed Fawcett Commission to South Africa and investigate conditions in the concentration camps that had been created there. Her report corroborated what the campaigner Emily Hobhouse had said about conditions in the camps.