Georgiana Solomon

Georgiana Margaret Solomon (née Thomson; born 18 August 1844 – 24 June 1933) was a British educator and campaigner, involved with a wide range of causes in Britain and South Africa.

There she met the liberal politician and newspaper proprietor Saul Solomon, known for his belief in equality based on creed, colour or class.

[3] Their views tallied on many matters, not least, girls' education: he owned a first edition of Mary Wollstonecraft's polemic A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.

[6] The couple had six children: Saul, who became a judge in the Supreme Court of South Africa; Margaret; George; William Ewart Gladstone, a painter who followed his mother into educational leadership as principal of the Bombay School of Art;[7] Daisy, a prominent suffragette; and a son who died in infancy.

(For context, the Ladies National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts was established in 1869 by Elizabeth Wolstenholme and Josephine Butler.)

Solomon was in the front of the delegation[15] as they entered the Speaker's Entrance and was told that Asquith was not present, she asked to see Colonel Seely whom she knew.

May therefore enclose the resolution which was deputed to lay before you by the Women’s Parliament Caxton Hall, and to request that you will give the same earnest consideration.”[15]Participants included Dr Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Dr Louisa Garrett Anderson, Anne Cobden-Sanderson, Princess Sophia Duleep Singh, Dorinda Neligan and Hertha Ayrton.

[16] On 4 March 1912, she began a one-month sentence in Holloway Prison for breaking nine windows in the House of Lords, the office attacked was that used by Black Rod.

WSPU gave up its militancy for the war effort, but Solomon, for example, chaired the Women's Freedom League Hampstead 'at home' meeting, raising funds for the Women's Suffrage National Aid Corps., hosted by Myra Sadd Brown, and spoke along with Charlotte Despard and Anna Munro, saying that she was 'glad the Freedom League was keeping the Suffrage flag flying' and felt that this was 'not the time to our Movement sink into the background.

Solomon offered hospitality to the visiting delegation led by William Schreiner who had come to London to press for equal suffrage for all races.

Clarensville House in Sea Point
Daisy Solomon and Elspeth Douglas McClelland outside 10 Downing Street in 1909, trying to have themselves delivered as letters