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The Baroness Horsbrugh | |
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 Horsbrugh in April 1945. | |
| Minister of Education | |
| In office 2 November 1951 – 18 October 1954 | |
| Prime Minister | Sir Winston Churchill |
| Preceded by | George Tomlinson |
| Succeeded by | David Eccles |
| Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food | |
| In office 23 May 1945 – 13 July 1945 | |
| Prime Minister | Sir Winston Churchill |
| Preceded by | William Mabane |
| Succeeded by | Edith Summerskill |
| Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health | |
| In office 14 July 1939 – 26 May 1945 | |
| Prime Minister | Neville Chamberlain Sir Winston Churchill |
| Preceded by | Robert Bernays |
| Succeeded by | Hamilton Kerr |
| Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
| In office 16 December 1959 – 6 December 1969 Life Peerage | |
| Member of Parliament for Manchester Moss Side | |
| In office 23 February 1950 – 18 September 1959 | |
| Preceded by | William Griffiths |
| Succeeded by | James Watts |
| Member of Parliament for Dundee | |
| In office 27 October 1931 – 15 June 1945 Serving with Dingle Foot | |
| Preceded by | Michael Marcus Edwin Scrymgeour |
| Succeeded by | Thomas Cook John Strachey |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 13 October 1889 Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Died | 6 December 1969 (aged 80) Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Occupation | Politician |
Florence Gertrude Horsbrugh, Baroness Horsbrugh GBE PC (13 October 1889 – 6 December 1969) was a Scottish Unionist Party and Conservative Party politician. The historian Kenneth Baxter has argued "in her day... [she] was arguably the best known woman MP in the UK".[1] and that she was "arguably the most successful female Conservative parliamentarian until Margaret Thatcher".[2]
- ^ Baxter, Kenneth (2009). "Florence Gertrude Horsbrugh The Conservative Party's forgotten first lady" (PDF). Conservative History Journal (8): 21. Retrieved 15 June 2015.
- ^ Baxter, Kenneth (November 2013). "'The Advent of a Woman Candidate Was Seen . . . As Outrageous': Women, Party Politics and Elections in Interwar Scotland and England". Journal of Scottish Historical Studies. 33 (2): 268. doi:10.3366/jshs.2013.0079. Retrieved 2 January 2016.