Margaret Wintringham

Margaret Wintringham

Margaret Wintringham (4 August 1879 – 10 March 1955), née Longbottom, was a British Liberal Party politician. She was the second woman to take her seat in the British House of Commons.

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Early life

She was born in Keighley, West Riding of Yorkshire, and educated at Bolton Road School, Silsden where here father was the head teacher, and then Keighley Girls' Grammar School before training as a teacher at Bedford Training College. She then worked as a teacher, becoming headmistress of a school in Grimsby, and in 1903 she married Thomas Wintringham, a timber merchant.

They had no children, and Margaret Wintringham became a magistrate and a member of the Grimsby Education Committee. She was involved in many political movements, including the National Union of Women Workers, the British Temperance Association, the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship (NUSEC), the Women's Institute, the Townswomen's Guild, and the Liberal Party.

Political career

When her husband was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Louth in Lincolnshire, she moved with him from Grimsby to Louth and remained politically active. When Thomas Wintringham died in 1921, she was selected as the Liberal candidate to replace him, and on 22 September she won the 1921 Louth by-election, becoming the first ever female Liberal MP and the third woman elected to the House of Commons. The first woman to be elected had been the abstentionist Constance Markievicz in 1918; the first to take her seat was the Conservative Nancy Astor, elected in 1919.

In Parliament, she campaigned for an equal franchise; the Representation of the People Act 1918 had extended the vote to all men over the age of 21, but only to some women over the age of 30. She also campaigned for equal pay for women, for state scholarships for girls as well as boys, and women-only railway carriages.

At the 1924 general election, she lost her seat in Parliament to the Conservative Arthur Heneage. Although she stood again in Louth at the 1929 general election and in Aylesbury at the 1935 election she did not return to the House of Commons.

She was the president of the Louth Women's Liberal Association and from 1925 to 1926 she was president of the Women's National Liberal Federation. In 1927 she was one of two women elected to the national executive of the Liberal Federation.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Thomas Wintringham
Member of Parliament for Louth
19211924
Succeeded by
Arthur Heneage



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