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Alice Martha Bacon MP

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Alice Martha Bacon. Yorkshire's first woman MP representing Leeds North East then Leeds South East from 1945 to 1970, held her constituency surgeries in this building. As a minister, she introduced comprehensive education and, as a social reformer, she championed abolition of the death penalty, decriminalisation of homosexuality and legalisation of abortion. 1909-1993

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