WOMEN M.P.'s
LADY BEAVERBROOK ASKED TO
STAND.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.)
(AUSTRALIAN - NEW ZEALAND CAHLE ASSOCIATION.
'LONDON, 3rd December.
The Ashton Conservative Union invited Lady Beaverbrook to contest tho constituency vacated by Mr. Albert Stanley. She is the mother of three children, and says she. is unwilling to abandon the nursery for the House of Commons, but she is expected to consent. [Lord Beaverbrook (when Sir William Maxwell Aitken) represented Ashton-under-Lyne in 1916 and 1917. In the latter year he was raised to the peerage. He is a Canadian, and was with the Canadian Expeditionary Force as "EyeWitness." Lady Beaverbrook also is a Canadian. Lady Astor, who was recently elected to the House of Commons for the Plymouth seat, is an American.]
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Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 137, 8 December 1919, Page 7
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