Vera Florence Annie Woodhouse, Lady Terrington (née Bousher) (1889 – 1973) was a British Liberal Party politician, and one of the first women Members of Parliament (MP).
At the 1922 general election, she stood as a Liberal candidate in the Wycombe constituency but the Conservative MP Colonel W. B. du Pré held the seat with a majority of 4473. She stood again at the December 1923 general election, and was elected to the House of Commons with a majority of 1682 votes. She lost her seat a year later, at the 1924 general election.
In Parliament, she supported the abolition of the means test for old-age pensions, and supported the Guardianship of Infants Bill which would have given both parents equal rights to custody. She also campaigned against cruelty to animals.
She was married three times: in 1912 to Ivo Sebright, whom she later divorced; in 1918 to Harold Woodhouse, Lord Terington, divorced in 1926; and to Max Lensveld (1949), with whom she moved to South Africa. She did not enter public life in South Africa. She died on the 19th May 1973, cremated at Eastbourne on the 30th May 1973; and her ashes were interred in East Hoathly, East Sussex Churchyard on the 1st August 1973. At the time of her death she was living at Monks Cottage, Graywood, East Hoathly. Her age was given as 84.
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| Preceded by William Baring du Pré |
Member of Parliament for Wycombe 1923–1924 |
Succeeded by Sir Alfred Knox |