Mary Stocks, Baroness Stocks

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Mary Danvers Stocks, Baroness Stocks (birth name: Mary Danvers Brinton * 25. July 1891 in London , † 6. July 1975 ) was a British suffragette , an economist , university lecturer and politician who in particular for women's suffrage began, 1939-1951 Director ( Principal ) of the Westfield College of the University of London was in 1966 as Life Peeress due to the Life peerages Act 1958 a member of the House of Lords was.

Life

Studies, women's rights activist and university lecturer

After attending St Paul's Girls School, Mary Brinton worked as a volunteer social worker for a number of years before she began studying economics at the London School of Economics (LSE), which she received in 1913 with a Bachelor of Science in Economics (B.Sc. Economics). Already at this time she began working for women's rights and was particularly involved in the women's suffrage movement National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), which achieved the introduction of women's suffrage in Great Britain in 1918. She was also supported in her work by her husband, the philosopher John Leofric Stocks, whom she married on December 16, 1913 in Kensington .

During the First World War , Mary Stocks was a lecturer at the London School of Economics and King's College London , before taking up a position as a lecturer in economic history at Somerville College and the Lady Margaret Hall of the University of Oxford after the war .

Later she joined the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship (NUSEC ), which convinced her to include family planning as the basis of her work. She helped found the first birth control clinic in Manchester in 1926 and also became vice president of the Workers' Educational Association (WEA). Between 1930 and 1936 she served as a magistrate ( justice of the peace ).

Principal of Westfield College and member of the House of Lords

After the death of her husband in 1937, Mary Stocks returned to London and in 1939 became Principal of Westfield College, which she directed until 1951. During the Second World War from 1939 to 1945, Westfield College was relocated to St Peter's College at the University of Oxford . After the end of the war and relocation to London, the college expanded. In addition, scholarships and financial support were introduced to enable higher education for students of different social classes and origins.

During this time Mary Stocks ran as an independent progressive candidate both in the general election of July 5, 1945 in the constituency of London University and in a by-election ( by-election ) in 1946 in the constituency of Combined English Universities for a member of the House of Commons , but was defeated in each case scarce.

After her resignation as head of Westfield College in 1951, she worked as a presenter of radio and television programs for the BBC and, in addition to being a member of the sponsorship committee of the University of London, continued to be involved in social and political projects. During this time she also received honorary doctorates from the University of Manchester in 1955, the University of Liverpool in 1956 and the University of Leeds in 1957.

By a letters patent dated January 17, 1966, Mary Stocks was raised to the nobility due to the Life Peerages Act 1958 as a life peer with the title Baroness Stocks , of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, and thus belonged to the House of until her death Lords as a member. In the House of Lords, she first joined the Labor Party faction , before she last belonged to the House of Lords from 1974 to 1975 as a crossbencher , independent of party .

Publications

In her numerous books she dealt with various political and economic topics, but also with people such as Josephine Butler , Eleanor Rathbone and Ernest Simon, 1st Baron Simon of Wythenshawe . She also wrote some stage works . Her most significant publications include:

  • The Industrial State; a Social and Economic History of England , 1923
  • Everyman of Everystreet , co-author George David Perrottet, 1933
  • Hail Nero! A Reinterpretation of History in Three Acts , Sidgwick & Jackson, Limited, 1934
  • Doctor Scholefield. An Incident of the Hungry Forties. A Play in Three Acts , 1936
  • The Victorians , 1941
  • Fifty Years in Every Street: The Story of the Manchester University Settlement , 1945
  • Eleanor Rathbone: a biography , Gollancz, 1949
  • The Workers' Educational Association: the First Fifty Years , 1953
  • The Philanthropist in a Changing World. Eleanor Rathbone Memorial Lecture , University Press, 1953
  • A hundred years of district nursing , G. Allen & Unwin, 1960
  • Josephine Butler and the Moral Standards of Today , 1961
  • Ernest Simon of Manchester , 1963
  • Philippa Strachey, 1872-1968 , Fawcett Society, 1969
  • My commonplace book , 1970
  • Still more commonplace , 1973

Web links

Life

Proof of publication

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Late Night Line-Up: The Suffragettes. Two eminent peers share their experiences of the suffrage movement . In: BBC Two, February 1, 1968
  2. ^ Ancestry.com
personal data
SURNAME Stocks, Mary, Baroness Stocks
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stocks, Mary, Baroness Stocks (full name); Brinton, Mary Danvers (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British economist, university teacher, suffragette and politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1975