Wright was born in New Haven, Connecticut, in the United States on 17 June 1910; her father was an international banker.

She came to England as an exchange student at Christ Church, Oxford, where she met, and in 1932 married, John Rathbone, with whom she had two children, including Tim, later MP for Lewes.

[2][3] In March 1941, she was elected unopposed as his successor and sat in the House of Commons for the rest of the Second World War.

She stepped down at the 1945 general election, after becoming the first sitting MP to give birth to a child.

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