Eleanor Rathbone (1872-1946: ODNB), daughter of William Rathbone, a wealthy Liverpool merchant, Liberal MP and philanthropist; Somerville Coll., Oxford; social worker and investigator, publishing numerous studies on poverty and low pay; leading advocate of state provision of family allowances; feminist and suffragist; member executive committee of the National Union of Women's Suffragist Societies from 1896; president, National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship from 1919; MP (Indep) Combined English Universities, which included Durham, 1929-46; critic of appeasement, organiser of support for refugees from Nazi Europe, and for wartime exposure of the Holocaust. See also Volume 73.

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• 5 May 1921
• 4 Jul 1921