Florence Horsbrugh, Baroness Horsbrugh

The Baroness Horsbrugh
Horsbrugh in April 1945.
Minister of Education
In office
2 November 1951 – 18 October 1954
Prime MinisterSir Winston Churchill
Preceded byGeorge Tomlinson
Succeeded byDavid Eccles
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food
In office
23 May 1945 – 13 July 1945
Prime MinisterSir Winston Churchill
Preceded byWilliam Mabane
Succeeded byEdith Summerskill
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health
In office
14 July 1939 – 26 May 1945
Prime MinisterNeville Chamberlain
Sir Winston Churchill
Preceded byRobert Bernays
Succeeded byHamilton 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 byWilliam Griffiths
Succeeded byJames Watts
Member of Parliament
for Dundee
In office
27 October 1931 – 15 June 1945
Serving with Dingle Foot
Preceded byMichael Marcus
Edwin Scrymgeour
Succeeded byThomas Cook
John Strachey
Personal details
Born(1889-10-13)13 October 1889
Edinburgh, Scotland
Died6 December 1969(1969-12-06) (aged 80)
Edinburgh, Scotland
Political partyConservative
OccupationPolitician

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]

  1. ^ Baxter, Kenneth (2009). "Florence Gertrude Horsbrugh The Conservative Party's forgotten first lady" (PDF). Conservative History Journal (8): 21. Retrieved 15 June 2015.
  2. ^ 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.