Mary Stocks

Mary Danvers Stocks, Baroness Stocks (25 July 1891-6 July 1975) was a British writer. She was the daughter of a London Doctor. She was closely associated with the Strachey, the Wedgwood and the Ricardo families. Her family was deeply involved in changes in the Victorian Era and Stocks herself was deepingly involved in Women's Suffrage, the Welfare State, London School of Economics and other aspects of social work Majority of detail taken from a book called "My Commonplace Book" published by Peter Davies London 1971 reprint of the first 1970 edition with an ISBN 0 432 15750 6 ]

She was married to the philosopher John Leofric Stocks, son of The Venerable J.E Stocks, Archdeacon of Leicester, and Emily Jane, daughter of Thomas Mallam of Oxford.

In 1946 Stocks contested the Combined English Universities by-election as an Independent candidate. The by-election was caused by the death of Eleanor Rathbone (whose biography Stocks wrote). She was the runner-up amongst five candidates.

Later life

Stocks became a radio broadcaster. She eventually retired to the House of Lords, having been created a life peer as Lady Stocks, on 17 January 1966; and wrote her autobiogarphy' Mary Stocks was commissioned to write a book on the 50th Anniversary of the WEA (Workers Educational Association) which was founded in 1903. Detail from a copy of the book published by George Allen and Unwin in 1953 with no ISBN ]

Bibliography

* "Fifty Years in Every Street"
* "Eleanor Rathbone"
* "History of the Workers' Educational Association"
* "A One Hundred years of District Nursing"
* "Ernest Simon of Manchester (UK)"
* "Unread Best-seller"
* "My Commonplace Book" (Autobiography)
* " The Workers Educational Association": The First Fifty Years.

Footnotes

ee also

* List of Life Peerages

References

* "British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949", compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Macmillan 1977)