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(Mary) Monica Whately (30 November 1889 – 12 September 1960) was a British suffragist and political activist.
Life
Born in the Brompton area ofLondon
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, Whately studied at the London School of Economics
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. In 1912, she and her mother, Maude, were founder members of the Catholic Women's Suffrage Society. In 1918, this became the St Joan's Social and Political Union, and Whately was appointed as its secretary. In 1921, she was a founder of the Six Point Group
The Six Point Group was a British feminist campaign group founded by Lady Rhondda in 1921 to press for changes in the law of the United Kingdom in six areas.
Aims
The six original specific aims were:
# Satisfactory legislation on child assault; ...
, which campaigned for women's rights, and was also active in the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship
The National Union of Women Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), also known as the ''suffragists'' (not to be confused with the suffragettes) was an organisation founded in 1897 of women's suffrage societies around the United Kingdom. In 1919 it was re ...
and the Open Door Society."
Whately joined the Independent Labour Party (ILP), and through it became the Labour Party candidate for St Albans
St Albans () is a cathedral city in Hertfordshire, England, east of Hemel Hempstead and west of Hatfield, Hertfordshire, Hatfield, north-west of London, south-west of Welwyn Garden City and south-east of Luton. St Albans was the first major ...
at the 1929
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and 1931 general elections. She remained with the Labour Party after the ILP disaffiliated, and stood unsuccessfully in Clapham at the 1935 general election, before winning election to London County Council
London County Council (LCC) was the principal local government body for the County of London throughout its existence from 1889 to 1965, and the first London-wide general municipal authority to be directly elected. It covered the area today kno ...
in 1937, representing Limehouse. While on the council, she successfully lobbied for midwives to continue in employment after marriage.
Whately was prominent in the No More War Movement The No More War Movement was the name of two pacifist organisations, one in the United Kingdom
and one in New Zealand.
British Group
The British No More War Movement (NMWM) was founded in 1921 as a pacifist and socialist successor to the No-Consc ...
between the wars."Whately, Monica Mary BA, (1890-1960)" in Cheryl Law, ''Women, a modern political dictionary.'' London, I.B. Tauris, 2000. (p.154). During World War II, she worked for the Ministry of Labour
The Ministry of Labour ('' UK''), or Labor ('' US''), also known as the Department of Labour, or Labor, is a government department responsible for setting labour standards, labour dispute mechanisms, employment, workforce participation, training, a ...
and Ministry of Information, but increasingly devoted her time to Save the Children
The Save the Children Fund, commonly known as Save the Children, is an international non-governmental organization established in the United Kingdom in 1919 to improve the lives of children through better education, health care, and economic ...
. After the war, she campaigned against apartheid in South Africa and against the British government's brutal repression of the Mau Mau Uprising
The Mau Mau rebellion (1952–1960), also known as the Mau Mau uprising, Mau Mau revolt or Kenya Emergency, was a war in the British Kenya Colony (1920–1963) between the Kenya Land and Freedom Army (KLFA), also known as the ''Mau Mau'', an ...
in Kenya
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. An active member of the Society for Cultural Relations with the USSR from its formation in 1924, Whately visited the Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...
in 1950 and later visited Czechoslovakia
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, Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...
, and China
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.
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