Norah Runge Explained

Norah Runge
Constituency Mp:	Rotherhithe
Term Start:	27 October 1931
Term End:	25 October 1935
Primeminister:	Stanley Baldwin
Predecessor:	Ben Smith
Successor:	Ben Smith
Birth Name:	Norah Cecil Runge
Party:	Conservative Party

Norah Cecil Runge, OBE (1884 – 6 June 1978) was a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom.

Career

Runge was elected Member of Parliament for Rotherhithe in the 1931 Conservative landslide, gaining the seat from Labour incumbent Benjamin Smith. Runge held the seat until 1935, when it was regained by Smith.

She was subsequently created an alderman on London County Council in 1937, remaining a member of the council until 1961.^{[1] [2]}

External links

• • Parliamentary Archives, Scrapbooks of newspaper clippings charting the career of Norah Cecil Runge, OBE, 1884-1978

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Notes and References

1. News: The New L.C.C.. 9 March 1937. The Times. 13.
2. Book: Hutton, Marceline J. Russian and West European women, 1860-1939: dreams, struggles, and nightmares. 2001. Rowman & Littlefield. 978-0-7425-1044-9. 392.