Vera Woodhouse, Lady Terrington

Vera Florence Annie Woodhouse, Lady Terrington (née Bousher) (1889 – c. 1956) was a British Liberal Party politician, and one of the first women Members of Parliament (MP).

At the 1922 general election, she stood as a Liberal candidate in the Wycombe constituency but the Conservative MP Colonel W. B. du Pré held the seat with a majority of 4473. She stood again at the December 1923 general election, and was elected to the House of Commons with a majority of 1682 votes. She lost her seat a year later, at the 1924 general election.

In Parliament, she supported the abolition of the means test for old-age pensions, and supported the Guardianship of Infants Bill which eould have given both parents equal rights to custody. She also campaigned against cruelty to animals.

She was married three times: in 1912 to Ivo Sebright, whom she later divorced; in 1918 to Harold Woodhouse, Lord Terington, divorced in 1926; and to Max Lensveld (1949), with whom she moved to South Africa. She did not enter public life in South Africa, and her year of death is unknown.

References

*Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
* [http://www.qub.ac.uk/cawp/UK%20bios/UK_bios_20s.htm#terr Lady Terrington (Vera Woodhouse)] at the Centre for the Advancement of Women in Politics
* [http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wterrington.htm Vera Terrington] at schoolnet
*Rayment

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title = Member of Parliament for Wycombe
years = 1923–1924
before = William Baring du Pré
after = Sir Alfred Knox