Eleanor Acland
Eleanor Margaret Acland | |
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Born | Eleanor Margaret Cropper 1878 |
Died | 12 December 1933 |
Nationality | British |
Other names | Eleanor Acland, Margaret Burneside |
Occupation(s) | politician, novelist |
Known for | suffragist |
Spouse | Francis Dyke Acland (1905–1933) |
Children | Richard Acland, Geoffrey Acland, Cuthbert Henry Dyke Acland, Eleanor Edith Dyke Acland |
Eleanor Margaret Acland, née Cropper (1878 – 12 December 1933) was a British Liberal Party politician, suffragist, and novelist. Until 1895 she was known as Eleanor Cropper, from 1895 to 1926 she was known as Eleanor Acland, and from 1926 to her death in 1933 she was known as Lady Acland. She served as president of the Women's Liberal Federation.
Background
Eleanor Margaret Cropper was born the daughter of Charles James Cropper and
During the First World War, Acland worked with Belgian refugees becoming a patron of the Chelsea Committee for Belgian Refugees and Committee Secretary of the Belgian Repatriation Fund for which she was awarded the Queen Elisabeth Medal.[7] In 1926, when her husband succeeded to the family baronetcy, she became Lady Acland.
Professional career
Eleanor Acland was an author of novels. She wrote In the Straits of Hope (1904) under the pseudonym of Margaret Burneside, a novel about artists in Chelsea, and Dark Side Out (1921), a multi-generational family saga. She also wrote two memoirs, Ellen Acland: The Story of a Joyful Life (1925), about her daughter, and Goodbye for the Present, published posthumously in 1935.[4]
Political career
Eleanor Acland was a passionate advocate of Votes for Women and was an active
In 1929 Lady Acland was elected President of the Women's Liberal Federation. She served a two-year term of office. In 1931 when
Electoral record
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Arthur Conrad Reed
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20,360 | 55.2 | n/a | |
Liberal | Lady Eleanor Mary Acland | 8,571 | 23.2 | n/a | |
Labour | James Viner Delahaye | 7,958 | 21.6 | -6.2 | |
Majority | 11,789 | 32.0 | n/a | ||
Turnout | 84.8 | +2.9 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | n/a |
References
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- ^ From Liberal to Labour with Women's Suffrage, Second Edition: The Story of Catherine Marshall by Jo Vellacott
- ^ "Calendar of the Association for Promoting the Education of Women in Oxford for the year 1909–1910". Oxford: The Association: 40–64. 1910.
- ^ S2CID 244561234, retrieved 23 June 2023
- ^ ‘ACLAND, Rt Hon. Sir Francis Dyke’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 30 Aug 2016
- S2CID 244561234, retrieved 23 June 2023
- ISBN 9783039118557.
- ^ From Liberal to Labour with Women's Suffrage, Second Edition: The Story of Catherine Marshall by Jo Vellacott
- ^ Memoirs, Viscount Samuel, p212
- ^ The Times House of Commons, 1931
- ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig