Parliament Square in London Is Closer to Having First Female Statue<br />Along with Canning, Lincoln and Mandela, the other statues on the square depict Winston Churchill; Mohandas K. Gandhi; the British prime minsters Robert Peel, Lord Palmerston, Edward Smith Stanley, Benjamin Disraeli<br />and David Lloyd George; and the South African prime minister Jan Smuts.<br />Caroline said that We should also remember the women who toiled quietly in the background, doing the more boring<br />but no less necessary work of lobbying, petitioning, persuading,<br />Since then, statues of 10 other men — including Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill<br />and, most recently, Nelson Mandela — have been erected there, but none of women.<br />20, 2017<br />LONDON — In 1867, a statue of the statesman George Canning was moved to Parliament<br />Square in London, across from the Palace of Westminster and Big Ben.<br />The British artist Gillian Wearing was hired to create a bronze casting of Fawcett,<br />and on Tuesday, she presented her design for the statue — which will also be the first by a female sculptor on the square.<br />London officials announced in April that they would rectify<br />that omission, by placing a statue of Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847-1929), who campaigned for women’s right to vote, on the square.
