Lawrence , Frederick William , Pethick- , 1871-1961 , 1st Baron Pethick-Lawrence , statesman

Lawrence , Frederick William , Pethick- , 1871-1961 , 1st Baron Pethick-Lawrence , statesman

William Ironside (fl 1953-1957) was a friend of the Labour politician Frederick Pethick-Lawrence.

Frederick Pethick-Lawrence (1867-1954) was a politician active in the campaign for women's suffrage. He was educated at Eton College, and at Trinity College, Cambridge where he studied mathematics and natural sciences. He later studied law and was called to the bar in 1899. After marriage to Emmeline Pethick in 1901 he appended her maiden name to his own surname Lawrence. He was a leading member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) from 1907-1912, founded and edited the periodical Votes for Women alongside his wife, and was imprisoned and suffered forcible feeding for the women's suffrage cause in 1912. Originally a Liberal Unionist candidate (for North Lambeth in 1901), Pethick-Lawrence had a lifelong involvement in the Labour Party, defeating Winston Churchill to become Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for West Leicester (1923-1931) and later working as MP for Edinburgh East and for the Treasury. He was a leading Labour spokesman on economics. A supporter of Indian self-government, he became Secretary of State for India, with a seat in the House of Lords in 1945. After his wife's death in 1954 he married Helen McCombie (née Millar) in 1957, who had also been a militant suffragette. He died in 1961.