Elizabeth Andrews OBE JP (née Smith; 15 December 1882 – 22 January 1960) was a Welsh politician and suffragist who was the first woman organiser of the Labour Party in Wales.
Andrews was born on 15 December 1882 at 13 John Street, Hirwaun in the Cynon Valley into a Welsh speaking mining family of Charlotte (née Evans) and Samuel Smith, one of eleven children (two of whom died during childhood).
[1] She lived in Station Road, Hirwaun, and was obliged to leave school at the age of twelve, in order to help at home.
She was one of three women who gave evidence before the Sankey Commission in 1918, speaking before the House of Lords, along with two English miners' wives.
[4] During the 1926 miners' lockout, she and Beatrice Green helped create a programme to temporarily foster 2,500 vulnerable children.