Richard Marsden Pankhurst
British lawyer
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Richard Marsden Pankhurst was a British lawyer and a proponent of women's suffrage. He authored the first woman suffrage bill in Great Britain in the late 1860s and was instrumental in the passage of the Married Women's Property acts in 1870 and 1882. He was married to Emmeline Pankhurst, a prominent leader in the fight for women's right to vote. Their daughter, Christabel Pankhurst, also became a key figure in the militant suffrage movement.12
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