Leah Manning
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Elizabeth Leah Manning DBE was a British educationalist, social reformer, and Labour Member of Parliament in the 1930s and 1940s. She organised the evacuation of orphaned or at risk Basque children du
Manning in 1946
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Mrs. Leah Manning Square, Bilbao, Spain
Epping (constituency)
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Epping was a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament from 1885 to 1974. It elected one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.
Leah Manning
…England, she continued to be involved with the Basque children, visiting them and highlighting their plight. Manning was selected as Labour candidate for Epping and won the seat in the 1945 general election. On entering the House of Commons, she would hang her coat on the 'men's' hooks as part of her campaign…
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