1. Georgiana Margaret Solomon was a British educator and campaigner, involved with a wide range of causes in Britain and South Africa.
19 Facts About Georgiana Solomon
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Georgiana Solomon was educated at a small boarding school in Edinburgh.
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Georgiana Solomon began her teaching career at the same school where she had been educated.
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Georgiana Solomon decided to accept the challenge, and emigrated in 1873 to South Africa.
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Georgiana Solomon was the inaugural principal of what is the Good Hope Seminary High School.
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Georgiana Solomon made a home for them, first at Sidcup, Kent and then in West Hampstead.
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Georgiana Solomon lived as a widow for over 40 years.
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Georgiana Solomon married into a large family and surrounded herself with educated women.
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In 1902 Georgiana Solomon returned to visit South Africa, where she assisted in the campaign for women's suffrage.
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Back in England, Georgiana Solomon became President of the Sidcup Women's Liberation Association in 1906.
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Georgiana and Daisy Solomon both joined the Women's Social and Political Union in 1908, and the following year Georgiana was involved in two unsuccessful deputations to the Prime Minister.
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Georgiana Solomon was in the front of the delegation as they entered the Speaker's Entrance and was told that Asquith was not present, she asked to see Colonel Seely whom she knew.
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Georgiana Solomon then asked for another acquaintance Mr Birrell and wrote a note on House of Commons headed notepaper to be delivered to the Prime Minister as follows:.
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Georgiana Solomon left the WSPU in 1913, but remained active in other suffrage organisations as well as the social purity movement.
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Georgiana Solomon maintained her involvement in South African developments from her base in London.
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Georgiana Solomon offered hospitality to the visiting delegation led by William Schreiner who had come to London to press for equal suffrage for all races.
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Georgiana Solomon opposed the South Africa Act 1909 which limited the franchise.
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Georgiana Solomon opposed the Natives Land Act, 1913, thinking the colour bar "un-British".
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Georgiana Solomon served on the leadership of the Aborigines' Protection Society, where she worked with Jane Cobden Unwin.