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Ellen Wilkinson
Ellen Cicely Wilkinson was a British Labor Party politician, serving as Minister of Education from July 1945 until her death. Earlier in her career, as an MP for Jarrow, she became a national figure playing a leading role in the 1936 Jarrow March incident that left the city unemployed. Come to London to ask for the right to work. Though failed at the time, the month of March provided an iconic image of the 1930s and helped shape postwar attitudes towards unemployment and social justice. Wilkinson was born into a poor but ambitious Manchester family and embraced socialism from an early age. After graduating from the University of Manchester, she worked for a women's suffrage organization and later as a union official. Inspired by the Russian Revolution of 1917, Wilkinson joined the British Communist Party and preached revolutionary socialism while searching for constitutional ways to gain political power through the Labor Party.
BornOctober 08, 1891, Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester, UK
DiedFebruary 06, 1947, St Mary's Hospital, London
Political partyLabour
Preceded byRichard Law
Succeeded byGeorge Tomlinson

About Ellen Wilkinson

Politician Ellen Wilkinson was born on October 8, 1891 in England (She dies at the age of 55, on February 6, 1947).

Former politician and Labour Party member who was one of the first women elected to Parliament in the United Kingdom in 1924. In Parliament, she represented both Jarrow and Middlesbrough East.

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Ellen Wilkinson before becoming famous

Ellen Wilkinson was born in the Zodiac sign Libra (The Scales), and 1891 is the year of the Chinese Zodiac Rabbit (兔).

She studied history at the University of Manchester before joining the Communist Party as a founder member in 1920.

Achievement of Ellen Wilkinson

She served as Minister of Education from 1945 until her death in 1947 due to a barbiturate overdose.

Ellen Wilkinson's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

She was born in the Manchester suburb of Ardwick.

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Ellen Wilkinson Collabed with

She and TV Actor Matthew Horne, a television actor, both attended the University of Manchester.

Ellen Wilkinson Income & Net worth

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Latest information about Ellen Wilkinson updated on March 08 2023.