Ellen Wilkinson

Ellen Cicely Wilkinson (8 October 1891 – 6 February 1947) was an English politician. She was a Labour Member of Parliament for Middlesbrough and later Jarrow. Wilkinson was one of the first females in Britain to become a Member of the British Parliament. She was one of the founding members for the Communist Party around 1920. Ellen was born in Ardwick, Manchester. She committed suicide with an overdose of barbiturates. Wilkinson died in St Mary's Hospital, London at age fifty-five.

Ellen Wilkinson Media

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  Whitworth Hall, Manchester University's Oxford Road building

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  Ramsay MacDonald, Labour's first prime minister

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  Jarrow Town Hall and Palmer Statue, starting point for the Jarrow March, 5 October 1936 (2007 photograph)

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  Ellen Wilkinson marching with the Jarrow Marchers, Cricklewood, London

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  Families sheltering in a London Tube station, c. 1940

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  Temporary classroom huts, built to accommodate the rise in school pupils following the raising of the leaving age

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  A sign at Ellen Wilkinson School, Acton, London