She was educated at Kensington High School and Northfields, Englefield Green.

[citation needed] During World War I, she served in the Red Cross POW Department and was appointed OBE in 1919.

[2] She held the seat until she retired from the House of Commons at the 1959 general election.

For a short time after the 1945 general election, she was the only female Conservative MP.

She was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 1952 Birthday Honours and created a life peer as Baroness Northchurch, of Chiswick in the County of Middlesex, on 13 January 1963.