NEWPORT suffragette Lady Rhondda will be commemorated with a blue plaque on June 12.

The plaque, which will read ‘deeds and words’, will be unveiled at Risca Road in Newport on the date of Lady Rhondda’s birthday after sponsors hit their target of £1,104 last February.

The milestone comes after just 12 days of crowdfunding in aid of the project to place a plaque on the house next to the post box made famous by Lady Rhondda at the height of the 1913 suffragette movement.

The post box is significant, as it was set on fire by the young activist as part of the suffragettes’ call for votes for women.

Jayne Bryant, Labour’s Assembly candidate for Newport West in 2016, helped to set up the campaign for the plaque and said Lady Rhondda was an inspirational figure.

She said: “The General Election has been a timely reminder of those people who fought hard to achieve the vote and that struggle was not that long ago.

“We’ve rediscovered a woman who has national significance. She was a local heroine."

The project was set up by Ms Bryant and Julie Nicholas, project lead for the blue plaque for Lady Rhondda group, last year.

It used a tiered pledging system where donors received rewards for the amount they give, including tickets to a lecture by Lady Rhondda’s biographer, Professor Angela John, at the University of South Wales on June 12.

The lecture, ‘A survivor’s tale’, will be hosted by Newport Equality group and will focus on Lady Rhondda’s experience on the Lusitania in 1915, when she survived its sinking.