COMMUNIST activist Claudia Jones and suffragette Emily Wilding Davison are to be honoured with blue plaques later this year, English Heritage announced today.

The charity said the “class of 2023,” which includes violinist and composer Yehudi Menuhin, recognises achievements across politics, social reform and the arts. 

US-born Jones, known as the “founding spirit” of the Notting Hill Carnival, will be recognised with a plaque at the shared dwelling in Vauxhall, London, where she lived in the late 1950s. 

It was during this time that she founded the West Indian Gazette and decided to bring a Caribbean carnival to the capital.

The life of Wilding Davison, who was killed when trying to attach a suffragette sash around King George V’s galloping horse at the 1913 Epsom Derby, will be marked with an installation at the Kensington house where she lived as she completed her schooling.

Menuhin’s plaque will commemorate the six-storey house in Belgravia where the US-born Jewish musician lived, worked and entertained before his death in 1999. 

English Heritage’s Professor William Whyte said the scheme “offers a glimpse of the very best of human achievement.”