Aline Mackinnon

Aline Mackinnon (30 October 1899[1] – 1 January 1970) was a British radical feminist, Liberal Party politician and civil servant.

[3] She was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge and the University of Edinburgh, where she graduated with a Master of Arts.

Deprived by the outbreak of war of another attempt to be elected at Holderness, she retired from elective politics but continued to be active in the national party as a member of the Liberal Party Council,[12] and for the Women's Liberal Federation, serving as Vice-President.

[14] Her Women's Liberal colleague Frances Josephy described her as "very knowledgeable and a brilliant speaker with a pretty wit".

[15] A keen skier and mountaineer, she died while on vacation in Austria, aged 70.