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Norah Cecil Runge, OBE (1884 – 6 June 1978) was a
Parliamentary Archives, Scrapbooks of newspaper clippings charting the career of Norah Cecil Runge, OBE, 1884-1978
__FORCETOC__ 1884 births 1978 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1931–1935 Female members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies Officers of the Order of the British Empire Politics of the London Borough of Southwark Members of London County Council 20th-century British women politicians 20th-century English women 20th-century English people Women councillors in England {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1880s-stub
Conservative
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politician in the United Kingdom
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.
Career
Runge was electedMember of Parliament
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for Rotherhithe
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in the 1931 Conservative landslide, gaining the seat from Labour
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incumbent Benjamin Smith. Runge held the seat until 1935
Events
January
* January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude Franco-Italian Agreement of 1935, an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims.
* ...
, when it was regained by Smith.
She was subsequently created an alderman
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on London County Council
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in 1937, remaining a member of the council until 1961.
References
*External links
*Parliamentary Archives, Scrapbooks of newspaper clippings charting the career of Norah Cecil Runge, OBE, 1884-1978
__FORCETOC__ 1884 births 1978 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1931–1935 Female members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies Officers of the Order of the British Empire Politics of the London Borough of Southwark Members of London County Council 20th-century British women politicians 20th-century English women 20th-century English people Women councillors in England {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1880s-stub