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Summerskill, Edith, 1901-1980

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Personal name headingSummerskill, Edith, 1901-1980
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Variant(s)Summerskill, Baroness, 1901-1980
Associated countryGreat Britain
Birth date19010419
Death date19800204
Field of activityPolitics, Practical Medicine Feminism
AffiliationLabour Party (Great Britain) Great Britain. Privy Council
Profession or occupationPoliticians Physicians Feminists
Found inHousewives' choice, [1948 or 1949]: p.[1] (Labour leader Edith Summerskill)
Wikipedia website, 30 May 2013 (Edith Clara Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill CH PC (19 April 1901-4 February 1980) was a British physician, feminist, Labour politician and writer. She was appointed to the Privy Council in 1949 and became a baroness in 1961; married in 1925 to Dr Jeffrey Samuel but continued to use her maiden name)
Associated languageeng