Millicent Fawcett

The suffragettes get the films, but Fawcett's National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies was the larger organisation, a federation of hundreds of local societies by 1913. Its most practical move came in 1912: the Election Fighting Fund, which paid for organisers to back Labour candidates against anti-suffrage Liberals, turning women's support into something parties could count. Fawcett then negotiated through the war towards the 1918 act, which let women stand for Parliament the same year. The law that won full equal franchise in 1928 arrived a year before her death.