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Miss Eleanor Rathbone is a former MP for Combined English Universities.

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Former MP for Combined English Universities

Entered the House of Commons on 30 May 1929 — General election

Left the House of Commons on 2 January 1946 — Died

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Alfred Hopkinson
• Herbert Fisher
• Martin Conway
• Herbert Fisher
• Martin Conway
• Herbert Fisher
• Martin Conway
• Herbert Fisher
• Martin Conway

Future MPs in this constituency

• Reginald Craddock
• Thomas Harvey
• Kenneth Lindsay
• Henry Strauss

Recent appearances

• Oral Answers to Questions — Germany: Displaced Persons(Treatment) 20 Dec 1945

  (by Private Notice)asked the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster whether he can now make a statement concerning the treatment of Jewish displaced persons in the British Zone in Germany.

• Oral Answers to Questions — Germany: Displaced Persons(Treatment) 20 Dec 1945

  While thanking the hon. Gentleman for his in many ways reassuring report, though there are still admitted deficiencies, may I ask him whether he will consider whether it would not help to forestall criticisms, whether justified or unjustified, if he would follow the example of the President of the United States by appointing a Jewish adviser to the Military Government in our Zone similar to...

• Oral Answers to Questions — Germany: Displaced Persons(Treatment) 20 Dec 1945

  Is the Minister aware that as far as I have been able to make out—and I have been making inquiries since I first heard of these violent criticisms—the particularly unfair criticisms which he has answered to-day do not seem to have originated in any of the well-known Jewish bodies in this country? They did not even know that the criticisms had been made.

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