Mabel Philipson
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Mabel Philipson (1 January 1887 – 8 January 1951) was a British actress and politician. She was the third female member to serve in the House of Commons after this became legally possible in 1918, serving Berwick-upon-Tweed.
Born Mabel Russell, she became a successful music hall and comedy actress. Widowed by 1911, in 1917 she married Hilton Philipson, a business owner and National Liberal politician; they had three children.
On 21 November 1918 the Parliamentary Qualification of Women Act, introduced a few weeks previously by Lord Robert Cecil was given Royal Assent, making women eligible as Members of Parliament.
Hilton Philipson was unseated on petition in 1923, due to a fraud involving his agent. Mabel Philipson was elected to the vacant seat as a Conservative, and held it until her retirement in 1929.
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- John Sleight, Women on the March (1986)
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