MISS JENNY LEE, M.P.

Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17711, 15 May 1929, Page 5

MISS JENNY LEE, M.P.

YOUNGEST WOMAN MEMBER. MINER’S DAUGHTER. LONDON, March 30. Mss Jennie Lee, the 24-year-old school teacher, who won North Lanark l’or the Socialists, will be the youngest woman M.P., and at present is without a vote. “1 knew our Jenny would get in,’’ Mrs Lee told a Daily Mail reporter. She stood by her daughter all yesterday morning during the counting of the votes at Glasgow, and when the result was announced Miss Lee blushed happily and made her way to her mother’s side to receive her kiss of congratulation. Her first action when she got away from the crowd was to send a telegram to her aged grandfather, who was awaiting the news at his little cottage home at Dunfermline, Fifeshire. “Satisfied Now.” “I am very well pleased,” her grandfather sakl. ‘‘She will be satisfied now, for she has been wanting it all her life.” He continued: She is a miner’s lassie. I was a miner and her father was a miner. At school she was always a clever lassie, right from the time she was at the top of her class at the little elementary school at Cowdenbeath.. From there she won a scholarship to the higher-grade school and went on to Edinburgh University, where she graduated M.A. and LL.R. At the university she almost paid her way by bursaries. ‘‘l am just a wee bit tired, but it has been worth it,” said Miss Lee last night. She was the guest of honour at a “victory ball" and danced several limes. Miss Lee wil take her seat in the House of Commons on Monday, and according to present arrangements will make her first speech in the House the same evening on a resolution concerning unemployment.