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DEA TH OF MARGARET BONDFIELD, AGED 80

... DEATH OF MARGARET BONDFIELD, AGED 80 MARGARET BONDFIELD, Britain’s first woman Cabinet Minister, died yesterday, it was announced teday to delegates at the annual conference of the Nationa! Union of General and Municipal Workers at Black- pool. Miss Bondfield ...

Published: Wednesday 17 June 1953
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 317 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

First woman Cabinet Minister dies at 80 Miss Margaret Bondfield, Britain's first woman Cabinet Minister, died ..

... First woman Cabinet Minister dies at 80 Miss Margaret Bondfield, Britain's first woman Cabinet Minister, died on Tuesday in a private nursing home at Sanderstead (Surrey), it was r disclosed yesterday. She was 80. ! system thai she began campaign . . ...

MARGARETBONDFIELD riff= Daily Courier k attardian. Wednesday, June 17, j 95, 5 DIES AT 80 • Britain's first ..

... LD riff= Daily Courier k attardian. Wednesday, June 17, j 95, 5 DIES AT 80 • Britain's first woman Cabinet Minister MARGARET BONDFIELD, Britain's first woman 1 Cabinet Minister, died, last night, at a private nursing Ihome at Sanderstead, Surrey. She ...

Published: Wednesday 17 June 1953
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 106 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THESE WERE PIONEERS

... leads the world. Lord Me- Entee was one of the oldest surviving members of the British trade union movement and Miss Margaret Bondfield, also a trade union leader, was the first woman to become a Cabinet Minister. Pioneer of Brit-' ain’s film industry ...

Published: Friday 22 January 1954
Newspaper: Todmorden & District News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 114 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

TODMORDEN

... which enabled them to hold many responsiolel positions, such as Mayors, Councillors, Aldermen, Magistrates, etc Miss Margaret Bondfield, the first woman Cabinet Minister, admitted that she owed her training to the Women’s Co-operative Guild. Many of their ...

Published: Friday 07 October 1955
Newspaper: Todmorden & District News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 147 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

MRS. FOGGITT MEETS THE

... handed purses to Princess Margaret were from overscas (Y.W.C.A. has no less than 69 foreign branches), and names ranged from such famous personalities as Miss Margaret Bondfield, presenting a purse on behalf of the “Margarets of Great Britain,” to Miss ...

Published: Thursday 15 June 1950
Newspaper: Ripon Gazette
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 244 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

• * Queen's advisers

... Minister of Education. and Dr. Edith Summerskill. Minister of National Insurance in the Labour Government. _ _ . Dame Margaret Bondfield. the first woman Cabinet Minister and the first woman privy councillor to be appointed below Royal rank, is now sev ...

Published: Wednesday 24 December 1952
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 361 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

New Principal

... the Church?” asks the Rev. R. W. L. Huggins, Vicar of Christ Church, a note in his parish magazine on the late Miss Margaret Bondfield. This lady,” lie says, rose from obscure origin to he Britain’s first woman Cabinet Minister great achievement. She ...

Published: Friday 17 July 1953
Newspaper: Barnoldswick & Earby Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 551 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Promotion for a woman

... Privy Councillor and is the first married woman to become a senior Minister. Previous women senior Ministers were Miss Margaret Bondfield and Miss Ellen Wilkinson. Lord Alexander Hillsborough, having last been moved from the Ministry of Defence, Is given ...

MISS BONDFIELD, BY HERSELF

... MISS BONDFIELD, BY HERSELF A Life's Work, by the Rt. Hon. Margaret Bondfield. (Hutchinson; 205.) THERE is nothing coy about Miss Margaret BondfielcL She quotes tribute after tribute to her life and work. There,” she seems to say, that shows you how splendid ...

Published: Tuesday 03 January 1950
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 629 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Humberside Echoes

... closing were brought into existence in Hull, the hours of the shop assistants would be materially shortened. Miss Margaret Bondfield, secretary of the union, was among the speakers. Heard this ? THE LITTLE GIRL was very fond of animals, and when she ...

Published: Thursday 26 October 1950
Newspaper: Hull Daily Mail
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 880 | Page: 4 | Tags: none