Eleanor Rathbone | |
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Member of Parliament for Combined English Universities with
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In office 30 May 1929 – 2 January 1946 | |
Prime Minister | Stanley Baldwin |
Preceded by | Alfred Hopkinson and Martin Conway |
Succeeded by | Henry Strauss and Kenneth Martin Lindsay |
Personal details | |
Born | Eleanor Florence Rathbone 12 May 1872 London, England |
Died | 2 January 1946 London, England | (aged 73)
Political party | None (Independent) |
Parent(s) | William Rathbone VI Emily Lyle |
Eleanor Florence Rathbone (12 May 1872 – 2 January 1946) was an independent British Member of Parliament (MP) and long-term campaigner for family allowance and for women's rights. She was a member of the noted Rathbone family of Liverpool.