Politician
Records tagged with Keywords: Politician
Malala Yousafzai
Submitted by Margaret Fergus... on 12 September 2017 - 10:25am
Revised: 12 September 2017 - 10:53am — Margaret Fergus...
Jennie Lee
Submitted by Alison McCall on 29 March 2013 - 4:24pm
Revised: 2 April 2013 - 10:49am — admin
Title:
Baroness Lee of Asheridge
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Her given name was Janet.
Dates:
3 Nov 1904-16 Nov 1988.
Born in Lochgelly in 1904, miner's daughter Jennie Lee became politically active at a young age. She became an M.P. in 1929.
She played a key role in creating the Open University.
Christian Elizabeth Farquharson-Kennedy
Submitted by Alison McCall on 21 April 2011 - 5:03pm
Revised: 14 September 2012 - 8:57pm — Alison McCall
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Prior to her marriage she was Christian Elizabeth Farquharson.
Dates:
27 February 1870- 16 July 1917
Christian Farquharson was born on 27 Feb 1870, at 57 Spital, Old Aberdeen, one of eight children of Alexander Farquharson and Helen Whalley. She trained as a teacher and taught firstly at Woodside School, Aberdeen and then at Kittybrewster School, Aberdeen. In Nov 1896 she attended a meeting at which she supported a resolution, which was unanimously carried, in favour of socialisation of the means of production, distribution and exchange; emancipation of labour from the domination of capital, and economic equality between the sexes.