Emily Davison Emily Davison Emily Wilding Davison (11 October 1872 – 8 June 1913) was a suffragette who fought for votes for women in Britain in the early twentieth century. A member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and a militant fighter for her cause, she was arrested on ten occasions, went on hunger strike seven times and was force fed on forty-nine occasions. She died after being hit by King George V's horse Anmer at the 1913 Derby when she walked onto the track during the race. Davison grew up in a middle-class family, and studied at Royal Holloway
Statue of Millicent Fawcett The memorial was unveiled on 24 April 2018. The bronze statue portrays Millicent Fawcett at the age of 50, when she became president of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS). The figure holds a banner reading , an extract from a speech Fawcett gave in 1920, seven years after the death of the suffragette Emily Wilding Davison. Fawcett was rather critical of Davison's actions in 1913, shortly after the latter's death (which was probably an accident caused by a failure to realise the speed – 40 mph or more – of a racing horse, and the subsequent danger