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Henry Fawcett, close up of Fawcett Memorial in Victoria Embankment Gardens, London Fawcett's name on the Reformers Monument, Kensal Green Cemetery. Henry Fawcett (26 August 1833 – 6 November 1884) was a British academic, statesman and economist.
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).
Henry Fawcett, 1833-1884. English Classical economist, and professor of economics at Cambridge University. Although blinded in a shooting accident with his father in 1857, at the age of 25, Fawcett nonetheless went on unabated.
24 de jun. de 2020 · Learn about the life and achievements of Henry Fawcett, who became blind after a shooting accident and became a prominent Liberal politician and advocate for women's rights. Read his speeches, debates and letters on topics such as university reform, agricultural labour and women's suffrage.
21 de fev. de 2017 · Policies and ethics. Although the contributions to economics of Henry Fawcett, the husband of feminist Millicent Garrett Fawcett, have often been dismissed as unoriginal popularizations of the political economy of the utilitarian John Stuart Mill, Fawcett was no dogmatist.
- Bart Schultz
- rschultz@uchicago.edu
- 2017
24 de abr. de 2021 · Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge, MP and Postmaster General, Henry Fawcett (1833–84) was a radical supporter of both feminism and class equality. He campaigned for the widening of access to universities and the preservation of public open spaces, and oversaw the development of the telephone network.
Henry Fawcett (1833-1884) was blinded in a shooting accident aged 25. He was elected Liberal MP for first Brighton and later Hackney from 1865. Always a supporter of votes for women, Henry Fawcett supported John Stuart Mill in the first debate on votes for women in the House of Commons in 1867.
