Margaret Grace Bondfield

Dates: 17 March 1873 – 16 June 1953

Lived at: 8 Denman Drive (short-term resident of HGS)

1911 Census:

• Completed census.
• Argued against boycott, spoke in favour of census data collection as a means for future welfare reform.

Suffrage organisation(s):

• Women’s Labour League,
• Adult Suffrage Society,
• People’s Suffrage Federation.
• Believed in universal suffrage without property qualification.

Key roles:

• Secretary of Women’s Labour League,
• Chair of Adult Suffrage Society,
• Lecturer for Labour Party and Independent Labour Party,

Militant Activities:

• None

Other achievements:

• Involved in trade union work for most of her life,
• First woman elected to TUC General Council and became Chair in 1923

Memorialised:

• Blue plaque in Hove, East Sussex, where she worked in a drapery and embroidery business, and
• Chard, Somerset where she was born.

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