“Call me Mizz”
(N.Z.P.A. Staff Crspdt) LONDON. ‘‘Call me Ms, Mr Speaker,-’’ demanded Labour Left-wing member of Parliament and avid women’s libber, Mrs Maureen Colquboun. And the Speaker, Mr George Thomas, agreed, making 47-year-old Mrs Colquhoun, a mother of three, the first woman M.P. to he officially declared a “Ms.”
The Speaker told the House of Commons: “I am now going to call the member for Northampton North, who has made a request not to be called Mrs or Miss but *M stroke s’, which J shall call Ms.”
Ms Colquhoun thanked the Speaker for his ruling and complimented him on his pronunciation of Ms
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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34104, 17 March 1976, Page 6
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