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Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst Memorial
The Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst Memorial commemorates Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughter Christabel, two of the foremost leading British suffragettes. It stands at the entrance to Victoria Tower Gardens, south of Victoria Tower at the southwest corner of the Houses of Parliament in London.
Fundraising for a statue of Emmeline Pankhurst began shortly after her funeral in 1928, organised by Katharine Willoughby Marshall, formerly Pankhurst's bodyguard in the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). A bronze statue of Emmeline Pankhurst was sculpted by Arthur George Walker; Sir Herbert Baker was the architect of the plinth.
The statue was unveiled by the Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin, on 6 March 1930. Baldwin gave a speech in which he said: "I say with no fear of contradiction, that whatever view posterity may take, Mrs. Pankhurst has won for herself a niche in the Temple of Fame which will last for all time."〔(Monument to a woman who changed history: Emmeline Pankhurst statue in Victoria Tower Gardens )〕 Composer Ethel Smyth, a close friend of Emmeline Pankhurst, conducted the Metropolitan Police Band during the unveiling playing an arrangement of her song "The March of the Women" and music from her opera ''The Wreckers''. "The March of the Women" was the anthem of the women's suffrage movement.〔The Times shot some pictures of this event, one of it is in possession of Susanne Wosnitzka. At this picture Ethel Smyth is wearing her honorary doctor's robe. Some men in the background are filming this scene with cameras. A 14645, nex39621 (historicimages.com): "FAMOUS CONDUCTOR AT UNVEILING OF MRS PANKHURST STATUE. Our picture shows Dame Ethel Smythe () conducting the Metropolitan Police Band when they played "The March of the Women" and the chorale from her composition "The Wreckers" at the unveiling of Mrs Pankhurst Statue".〕
In 1958 the statue was moved from its original position in the south of the gardens to a new site further north, and a low stone screen was built flanking the statue, terminating at either end with bronze medallions sculpted by Peter Hills. These depict, on the left, the "prison brooch" or "badge" of the WSPU,〔(Holloway brooch ), parliament.uk〕 and, on the right, a profile bust of Christabel Pankhurst, who died in 1958. The unveiling of this dual memorial was performed on 13 July 1959 by the Lord Chancellor, Lord Kilmuir. Sylvia Pankhurst died in 1960; she is not commemorated. The statue was granted a Grade II listing in 1970.
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