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| - Marjorie Eleanor McIntosh (née Betts) (1907-6 May 1964) was a lecturer and Labour Party politician. Born in Norwich, she was the daughter of Frank Betts, an inspector of taxes and his wife Annie Rebecca nee Farrand. Due to her father's profession, he moved around the country. Her younger sister, Barbara Anne, later Barbara Castle, member of parliament and cabinet minister was born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, in 1910. The family subsequently moved to Bradford, Yorkshire, where her father joined the fledgling Independent Labour Party. She died, aged 56, in Middlesex Hospital.
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| - Marjorie Eleanor McIntosh (née Betts) (1907-6 May 1964) was a lecturer and Labour Party politician. Born in Norwich, she was the daughter of Frank Betts, an inspector of taxes and his wife Annie Rebecca nee Farrand. Due to her father's profession, he moved around the country. Her younger sister, Barbara Anne, later Barbara Castle, member of parliament and cabinet minister was born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, in 1910. The family subsequently moved to Bradford, Yorkshire, where her father joined the fledgling Independent Labour Party. She was educated at Bradford Girls' Grammar School and St Hugh's College, Oxford, graduating B.A. in 1929. She married Alistair John McIntosh, principal of the City of London College, in Brentford in 1932. She became a lecturer in the Social Science Department of Bedford College. Having previously served as a member of Birmingham City Council, on 23 October 1947 she was elected to the London County Council in a by-election to fill a vacancy at Battersea North as a Labour Party councillor. She held the seat at the next election in 1949, but stood down at the 1952 council election. She returned to the county council as an alderman in 1958. In May 1961 she became chairman of the county council's Education Committee. Under the London Government Act 1963 the county council was to be abolished and replaced by the Greater London Council (GLC) on 1 April 1965. Elections to the new GLC were held in April 1964, and McIntosh was elected as a councillor representing Hammersmith. She died, aged 56, in Middlesex Hospital.
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