Florence Horsbrugh, Baroness Horsbrugh

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The Right Honourable The Baroness Horsbrugh GBE PC
Horsbrugh in April 1945.
Minister of Education
In office 2 November 1951 – 18 October 1954
Prime Minister	Sir Winston Churchill
Preceded by	George Tomlinson
Succeeded by	David Eccles
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food
In office 23 May 1945 – 13 July 1945
Prime Minister	Sir Winston Churchill
Preceded by	William Mabane
Succeeded by	Edith Summerskill
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health
In office 14 July 1939 – 26 May 1945
Prime Minister	Neville Chamberlain Sir Winston Churchill
Preceded by	Robert Bernays
Succeeded by	Hamilton Kerr
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
In office 16 December 1959 – 6 December 1969 Life Peerage
Member of Parliament for Manchester Moss Side
In office 23 February 1950 – 18 September 1959
Preceded by	William Griffiths
Succeeded by	James Watts
Member of Parliament for Dundee
In office 27 October 1931 – 15 June 1945 Serving with Dingle Foot
Preceded by	Michael Marcus Edwin Scrymgeour
Succeeded by	Thomas Cook John Strachey
Personal details
Born	(1889-10-13)13 October 1889 Edinburgh, Scotland
Died	6 December 1969(1969-12-06) (aged 80) Edinburgh, Scotland
Political party	Conservative
Occupation	Politician

Florence Gertrude Horsbrugh, Baroness Horsbrugh GBE PC (13 October 1889 – 6 December 1969) was a Scottish Unionist Party and Conservative Party politician. The historian Kenneth Baxter has argued "in her day... [she] was arguably the best known woman MP in the UK".^[1] and that she was "arguably the most successful female Conservative parliamentarian until Margaret Thatcher".^[2]