Agnes Dawson

Agnes Dawson (7 March 1873 – 20 April 1953) was a British politician and trade unionist.

Dawson was born in Peckham, she became a pupil-teacher in Camberwell before qualifying as a teacher at Saffron Walden Training College.

She stood unsuccessfully in the 1922 London County Council election in Westminster Abbey,[2] but won Camberwell North in 1925, and quit teaching to become a full-time politician.

She also persuaded Herbert Morrison to lift the ban on married women teachers in London.

In 1937, she stood down from the council, cut her links with the union, and moved to Newport, Essex, with her long-term companion, Anne Munns, who she described as her "pal and partner".