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Keir Hardie addressing the first women's suffrage demonstration mb-width 3799 Nautilus ambiguus figKeir Hardie addressing the first women's suffrage demonstration, Trafalgar Square, London, 19 May 1906. Hardie (1856 1915) was a Scottish trade unionist and politician who was one of the founders of the Labour Party and its first Member of Parliament. He was a firm supporter of the campaign for women to receive the vote. Leading suffragettes Emmeline Pankhurst (1858 1928) and Elizabeth Clarke Wolstenholme Elmy (1833 1918) can be seen in the centre of