Blue Plaque for suffragette Lady Rhondda

A Blue Plaque will be unveiled later in honour of Lady Rhondda, the suffragette, campaigner, publisher and businesswoman.

She was arrested for setting fire to letters in a post-box on Risca Road in Newport in 1913, as part of the national suffragette campaign calling for ‘Votes for Women’.

She was imprisoned and went on hunger strike.

The Blue Plaque will be unveiled next to the post-box.

Amongst her many achievements were:

• Becoming the first female president of the Institute of Directors
• Surviving the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915
• Being Chief controller of women's recruitment in the Ministry of National Service during WW1
• Being appointed Editor of & journalist at ‘Time and Tide’ magazine
• Founding the Six Point Group (calling for universal equal rights)
• Being appointed President of Women's Press club
• Receiving an honorary doctorate from University of Wales
• Becoming 2nd Viscountess Rhondda on her father's death, and campaigning for decades for the right for herself and others to sit in the House of Lords