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Newport: Statue honouring suffragette Lady Rhondda unveiled

Born in 1883, Lady Rhondda was the daughter of Liberal politician and businessman Viscount David Thomas.

A woman of privilege, she campaigned with suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst for the right for all women to vote.

She also took part in protest marches with the Pankhursts and attempted to destroy a postbox with a chemical bomb.

She was sent to Usk jail, Monmouthshire, from where she was only released after going on hunger strike.

After her father’s death in 1918, she inherited his title but was not allowed to sit in the House of Lords.

She died in 1958 – a few months shy of the first women taking their seats.


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