Arabella Susan Lawrence (12 August 1871 - 25 October 1947) was a British Labour politician, one of the first female Labour MPs. August 12 is the 224th day of the year (225th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1871 (MDCCCLXXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... October 25 is the 298th day of the year (299th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... The Labour Party has been, since its founding in the early 20th century, the main democratic socialist [1] political party in the United Kingdom. ...

Lawrence was the daughter of Nathaniel Lawrence, a wealthy solicitor, and Laura Bacon. She was educated in London and at Newnham College, Cambridge. Originally a Conservative, she was a member of the London County Council 1910 - 1912 as a Conservative and, after coming under the influence of Beatrice Webb and Sidney Webb, a Labour member of the council from 1913 - 1927, deputy chairman of the LCC 1925-26. London (pronounced ) is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. ... Full name Newnham College Motto - Named after - Previous names Newnham Hall Established 1871 Sister College St Cross College Principal The Lady ONeill of Bengarve Location Sidgwick Avenue Undergraduates 396 Graduates 120 Homepage Boatclub A view of part of Newnham College. ... The University of Cambridge, located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... The Conservative Party (officially the Conservative & Unionist Party) is currently the second largest political party in the United Kingdom in terms of sitting Members of Parliament (MPs), and the largest in terms of public membership. ... London County Council emblem is still seen today on buildings, especially housing, from that era London County Council (LCC) was the principal local government body for the County of London from 1889 until 1965, when it was replaced by the Greater London Council. ... Beatrice Webb Martha Beatrice Potter Webb (January 2, 1858 - April 30, 1943) (also called Beatrice Webb) was a British socialist, economist and reformer, usually referred to in the same breath as her husband, Sidney Webb. ... Categories: UK Labour Party politicians | British MPs | Peers | Secretaries of State for the Colonies (UK) | 1859 births | 1947 deaths | People stubs ... The Labour Party has been, since its founding in the early 20th century, the main democratic socialist [1] political party in the United Kingdom. ...

As a member of the local council in Poplar, London 1919 - 1924, led at the time by George Lansbury, Lawrence was part of the Labour group that defied central government and refused to set a rate arguing that the poverty in the area meant the poor were being asked to pay for the poor. Lawrence was imprisoned for five weeks in Holloway Prison in 1921 but ultimately she and her fellow councillors' campaign succeeded in that government passed a law to equalise Poor Law rates. Poplar is an area of the East End of London in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. ... The Right Honourable George Lansbury (February 21, 1859 – May 7, 1940) was a British Labour politician, socialist, Christian pacifist, and newspaper editor. ... HM Prison Holloway is a womens prison in the London Borough of Islington, London, United Kingdom. ... Former workhouse at Nantwich, dating from 1780 The Poor Law was the system for the provision of social security in operation in England and the rest of the United Kingdom from the 16th century until the establishment of the Welfare State in the 20th century. ...

Lawrence first stood, unsuccessfully, for Parliament at Camberwell in the 1922 General Election but won East Ham North in the 1923 election which saw the first Labour government take office in the January of the following year. She was one of the first three female Labour MPs alongside Dorothy Jewson and Margaret Bondfield. The minority government lasted only nine months and following the Zinoviev letter, the Labour Party was defeated in the election of October 1924 and Lawrence was personally defeated. However, her Conservative victor, Charles Williamson Crook, died only 18 months later and Lawrence was easily re-elected in a by-election in April 1926. States currently utilizing parliamentary systems are denoted in orange and red—the former being constitutional monarchies where authority is vested in a parliament, and the latter being parliamentary republics whose parliaments are effectively supreme over a separate head of state. ... The UK general election of 1922 was held on 15th November 1922. ... The UK general election of 1923 was held on 5th December 1923. ... Margaret Grace Bondfield (17th March, 1873-16th June, 1953), an English politician and feminist was born in Chard, Somerset, the eleventh child of Anne Taylor and William Bondfield, a textiles worker with left-wing views. ... The Zinoviev Letter is thought to have been instrumental in the Conservative Partys victory in the United Kingdom general election, 1924, which ended the countrys first Labour government. ... The 1924 UK general election was held on 29th October 1924. ...

Susan Lawrence was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health in the second Labour Government after 1929. She was also chair of the Labour Party Conference in Llandudno in 1930 - the first woman to do so. Like the vast majority of Labour MPs in Parliament, she refused to take part in Ramsay MacDonald's National Government in the summer of 1931 and she lost her seat in the 1931 general election and was never again a Member of Parliament. Llandudno South Parade (on the north shore) viewed from the Great Orme, with the twin mounds of Deganwy Castle in the distance Llandudno Bay and the Little Orme viewed from the Great Orme Llandudno Pier viewed from the Happy Valley gardens A sunny corner in the Happy Valley gardens Llandudno... James Ramsay MacDonald (12 October 1866–9 November 1937) was a British politician and twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. ... National governments or national unity governments are broad coalition governments consisting of all parties (or all major parties) in the legislature and are often formed during times of war or national emergency. ... The UK general election on Tuesday 27 October 1931 was the last in the United Kingdom not held on a Thursday. ...

Maintaining her work in the Labour Party, Lawrence was a member of the executive until 1941 and devoted a lot of her time to working with the blind up until her death in 1947.