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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 ...
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
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 ...
Pages in category "History of women in the United Kingdom" The following 67 pages are in this category, out of 67 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Leader (Birth–death) Portrait Title Took office Left office Prime Minister; Jean Lambert (b. 1950) Female Principal Speaker 1992 1993 Major: Jan Clark
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Name Constituency Office held Year appointed NI Women's Coalition: Jane Morrice: North Down: Deputy Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly: 1998 Sinn Féin: Caitríona Ruane: South Down: Principal Deputy Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly: 2016 Sinn Féin: Carál Ní Chuilín: Belfast North: Principal Deputy Speaker of the Northern ...
This category is for feminine given names from England (natively, or by historical modification of Biblical, etc., names). See also Category:English-language feminine given names , for all those commonly used in the modern English language , regardless of origin.