Marjorie Graves

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Frances Marjorie Graves
Member of Parliament for Hackney South
In office
27 October 1931 – 25 October 1935
Prime MinisterStanley Baldwin
Preceded byHerbert Morrison
Succeeded byHerbert Morrison
Personal details
Born(1884-09-17)17 September 1884
Allerton, Liverpool, England
Died17 November 1961(1961-11-17) (aged 77)
Wareham, Dorset, England
Political partyConservative
Alma materChâteau de Dieudonne, Bornel, France

Frances Marjorie Graves (17 September 1884 – 17 November 1961) was a British civil servant, Conservative politician and writer.

Early life

She was born in

Justice of the Peace.[1] They also maintained a house in Brompton Square, London.[2]

Education

Marjorie had a private education, later schooling being carried out at Château de Dieudonne, Bornel, France.

Bibliothèque Nationale and Archives Nationales
in Paris led to her publications of three works.

Career

Civil service

With the outbreak of war in 1914 she took up employment in the

Paris Peace Conference, before transferring to the Intelligence Department of the Home Office.[2]

Political career

Graves was politically a Conservative, and was a member of

National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations in 1936.[2]

In 1931 she was chosen as Conservative candidate for the parliamentary constituency of Hackney South, held by Labour cabinet minister Herbert Morrison. She succeeded in unseating Morrison to become the area's Member of Parliament.[3] At the next general election in 1935 she was hopeful of retaining the seat, with her campaign centering on opposition to the use of Hackney Marshes for the building of council houses.[4] She was, however, badly beaten, with Morrison returning to parliament with a large majority.[5][6]

In 1936 she formed part of the British Government delegation to the

Second World War
, and she did not contest the seat.

Retirement

She retired to Wareham, Dorset, where she became a member of the county council. She was unmarried, and died in Wareham in November 1961.[2]

Interests

In 1932 and 1933 she was a vice-president of the Supporters Club of the Clapton Orient Football Club and worked closely with Herbert Morrison MP in support of Clapton Orient. Source: Neilson N. Kaufman, honorary historian Leyton Orient FC.

Works

  • Catalogue of the Loan Exhibition of relics of past and present wars, held at South Lodge, Horsham, 7 August 1916. By F. M. Graves. [With plates.] pp. ix. 62. G. P. Putnam's Sons: London & New York, 1917. 4º.
  • Graves, Frances Marjorie. Quelques pièces relatives à la vie de Louis I., duc d'Orléans et de Valentine Visconti, sa femme. pp. xii. 310. 1913. Bibliothèque. Bibliothèque du XVe siècle. tom. 19. 1906, etc. 8º.
  • Campan, Jeanne Louise Henriette. Mémoires sur la vie privée de Marie-Antoinette, reine de France. Memoirs of the Private Life of Marie Antoinette ... Third edition. Memoirs of the Private Life of Marie Antoinette, to which are added personal recollections illustrative of the reigns of Louis XIV, XV, XVI ... Also a memoir of Madame Campan by F. Barrière. A new edition, revised by F. M. Graves. With an introduction and notes by J. Holland Rose ... Illustrated with thirty plates [including portraits]. 3 vol. H. Young & Sons: Liverpool, 1917 [1916].

References

  1. ^
    doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/50061. Retrieved 28 April 2009. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  2. ^ a b c d "Obituary: Miss Marjorie Graves". The Times. 20 November 1961. p. 12.
  3. ^ "The General Election: First Returns, Polling In The Boroughs". The Times. 28 October 1931. p. 6.
  4. ^ "Changes In London The Labour Gains, Failure In Home Counties". The Times. 16 November 1935. p. 18.
  5. ^ "The General Election: First Returns, Polling In The Boroughs". The Times. 15 November 1935. p. 8.
  6. ISBN 0-900178-06-X
    .
  7. ^ "Mr. Eden To Attend League Assembly: British Delegation". The Times. 15 September 1936. p. 14.
  8. ^ "News in Brief". The Times. 27 February 1937. p. 9.

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