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Ethiopians call for state funeral as Richard Pankhurst, champion of Ethiopian culture, dies aged 89 Grieving Ethiopians yesterday called for a state funeral to be bestowed on Richard Pankhurst, scion of Britain’s celebrated suffragette family and for many decades Ethiopia’s most stalwart Western champion.

Suffragette's historian son Richard Pankhurst dies, Ethiopia mourns Richard Pankhurst, the son of the British women's rights campaigner Sylvia Pankhurst who became one of the world's leading experts on Ethiopian history and culture, has died aged 89.