Florence Harrison Bell

Florence Nightingale Harrison Bell (8 October 1865 – September 1948) was a British socialist and suffragist activist.

Under that name in 1896, she married Joseph Nicholas Bell, general secretary of the National Amalgamated Union of Labour.

[2][3] She became active in the Independent Labour Party (ILP), and was the first woman to serve on its National Administrative Council (NAC).

In 1909, she stood down from the position, and the following year she became secretary of the local branch of the Women's Labour League.

[4] She remained active in the Labour Party, and stood in Luton at the 1929 UK general election, taking third place with 16.5% of the vote.

[8] In October 2019, Newcastle City Council erected a plaque in her memory on the house in Hotspur Street, in which she and her husband lived for around twenty years.