The+Huddersfield+Demonstration

On a sunny summer day, nine Manchester Suffragettes and Mary Gawthorpe travelled to Huddersfield. They assembled in the Station Square where between 20,000 to 50,000 people (depending on whose estimates you take) gathered to hear the suffragettes speak.The crowd gathered at modern day St George's Square which was previously the home of this statue to Sir Robert Peel. //Peel was twice British prime minister and his period in government saw landmark social reforms and the repeal of the Corn Laws.// Robert Peel was born on 5 February 1788 in Bury, Lancashire. His father was a wealthy cotton mill owner, and Peel was educated at Harrow and Oxford, entering parliament as a Tory in 1809. His early political career included appointments as under-secretary for war and colonies (1809) and chief secretary for Ireland (1812). In 1822, he become home secretary, and introduced far-ranging criminal law and prison reform as well as creating the Metropolitan Police - the terms 'bobbies' and 'peelers' come from his name.