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Frances Simson (1854–1938) – suffragist, campaigner for women's higher education and one of the first of eight women graduates from the University of Edinburgh; May Sinclair (1863–1946) – member of the Woman Writers' Suffrage League; Sophia Duleep Singh (1876–1948) – had leading roles in the Women's Tax Resistance League, and the WSPU
Name Constituency Year elected Year left Reason Sinn Féin: Constance Markievicz: Dublin St Patrick's: 1918 (did not take seat) 1922: Constituency abolished due to establishment of Irish Free State: Conservative: Nancy Astor [a] Plymouth Sutton: 1919: 1945: Retired Liberal: Margaret Wintringham [b] Louth, Lincolnshire: 1921: 1924: Defeated ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "History of women in the United Kingdom" ... List of female leaders of British political parties; M.
Sixty-eight women have been appointed to positions in the Cabinet of the United Kingdom, with three female Prime Ministers serving in cabinet.Since, by convention, members of the cabinet must be a member of either the House of Commons or House of Lords, [1] the Prime Minister could not appoint women to the cabinet until the Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act 1918 allowed women to stand ...
Leader (Birth–death) Portrait Title Took office Left office Prime Minister; Jean Lambert (b. 1950) Female Principal Speaker 1992 1993 Major: Jan Clark
Memoirs of the literary ladies of England from the commencement of the last century (1843), by Anne Elwood, is a group biography of British women writers of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The Memoirs are dedicated to Elwood's late mother, Mary Curteis.
Pages in category "British women historians" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 442 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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