Margaret Bondfield letter to Mrs. M. Piercy, 1924 Jan. 25.

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Margaret Bondfield letter to Mrs. M. Piercy, 1924 Jan. 25.

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Margaret Bondfield writes to Mrs. M. Piercy, 25 Jan. 1924, thanking her for sending a highly complimentary congratulatory letter after Bondfield's appointment as Minister of Labour.

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Bondfield, Margaret, 1873-1953

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Margaret Grace Bondfield CH PC (17 March 1873 – 16 June 1953) was a British Labour politician, trade unionist and women's rights activist. She became the first female cabinet minister, and the first woman to be a privy counsellor in the UK, when she was appointed Minister of Labour in the Labour government of 1929–31. She had earlier become the first woman to chair the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC). Bondfield was born in humble circumstances and received limited formal ed...