Florence Horsbrugh, Baroness Horsbrugh
Florence Gertrude Horsbrugh, Baroness Horsbrugh GBE PC (13 October 1889 – 6 December 1969) was a Scottish Unionist Party and Conservative Party politician. The historian Kenneth Baxter has argued "in her day... [she] was arguably the best known woman MP in the UK". and that she was "arguably the most successful female Conservative parliamentarian until Margaret Thatcher".
The Right Honourable The Baroness Horsbrugh GBE PC | |
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Horsbrugh in April 1945. | |
| Minister of Education | |
| In office 2 November 1951 – 18 October 1954 | |
| Prime Minister | Sir Winston Churchill |
| Preceded by | George Tomlinson |
| Succeeded by | David Eccles |
| Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food | |
| In office 23 May 1945 – 13 July 1945 | |
| Prime Minister | Sir Winston Churchill |
| Preceded by | William Mabane |
| Succeeded by | Edith Summerskill |
| Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health | |
| In office 14 July 1939 – 26 May 1945 | |
| Prime Minister | Neville Chamberlain Sir Winston Churchill |
| Preceded by | Robert Bernays |
| Succeeded by | Hamilton Kerr |
| Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
| In office 16 December 1959 – 6 December 1969 Life Peerage | |
| Member of Parliament for Manchester Moss Side | |
| In office 23 February 1950 – 18 September 1959 | |
| Preceded by | William Griffiths |
| Succeeded by | James Watts |
| Member of Parliament for Dundee | |
| In office 27 October 1931 – 15 June 1945 | |
| Preceded by | Michael Marcus Edwin Scrymgeour |
| Succeeded by | Thomas Cook John Strachey |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 13 October 1889 Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Died | 6 December 1969 (aged 80) Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Occupation | Politician |
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