HASLEMERE MP Jeremy Hunt wore suffragette colours alongside his NHS badge in a special Commons debate to mark 100 years since the law that let women vote for the first time, last Tuesday.

The South West Surrey MP?was among a number of parliamentarians to pay tribute to the suffrage movement, pinning a purple and a white flower to his lapel.

The Museum of Farnham also commemorated the occasion, sharing on Twitter a Herald article from December 21, 1918, recording that the first people to vote in the historic December 14, 1918, election were both women, Mrs Crow and Mrs Heath.

It was the first General Election after the 1918 Representation of the People Act was passed. The Herald cutting read: “The polling opened at eight o’clock, and it is interesting to note that two ladies were the first to enter – Mrs Crow, of Tanfield, East Street, and Mrs Heath, of West Street.

“The former got her ballot paper first, but she lost a little time in recording her vote, and Mrs Heath whipped in and got her ballot paper first in the box.”

The museum in West Street also announced the opening of its new temporary exhibition ’Out of the Doll’s House’, exploring how women’s fashions have changed during the last 100 years since first getting the vote in February 1918.

A former secretary of the Farnham Suffrage Society and the first woman to become Mayor of Cambridge, Eva Rayner Hartree, was also celebrated online by the Hartree Centre, a Cheshire-based research institute named in honour of her son Douglas Hartree.

The centre posted on Twitter: “We celebrate a vital part of our heritage, Eva Rayner Hartree. Eva championed equal rights at Cambridge University, was secretary of Farnham Suffrage Society and the first woman to become Mayor of Cambridge in 1924.”

The institute’s website added Eva “had a passion for working with refugees and championed women’s equality as secretary of the Farnham Suffrage Society, eventually going on to become president of the British National Council of Women, an organisation which fights to give women rights and a voice in both national and international affairs.”

•Many of Surrey’s most famous suffragettes attended London University’s Royal Holloway College, at Englefield Green, near Egham, including Emily Wilding Davison, who threw herself under the King’s horse at the Epsom Derby in 1913.

The college’s Women’s Suffrage exhibition (until March 17) features never-seen-before diaries, photographs and letters Admission free 10am-6pm (8.30pm Thurs).