Henry Betterton, 1st Baron Rushcliffe
Henry Bucknall Betterton, 1st Baron Rushcliffe, GBE, PC, known as Sir Henry Betterton, Bt, between 1929 and 1935, was a British barrister and Conservative politician. He served as Minister of Labour under Ramsay MacDonald between 1931 and 1934.
by Walter Stoneman, 1930
Henry Betterton 1929
Margaret Grace Bondfield was a British Labour Party politician, trade unionist and women's rights activist. She became the first female cabinet minister, and the first woman to be a privy counsellor in the UK, when she was appointed Minister of Labour in the Labour government of 1929–31. She had earlier become the first woman to chair the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC).
Bondfield in 1919
A modern (2009) photograph of the main street in Chard, Somerset, Bondfield's home town
Brighton in the 1890s
Beatrice and Sidney Webb, c. 1895; they were among Bondfield's early socialist acquaintances.