Leah L'Estrange Malone

Leah L'Estrange Malone (née Klingenstein; 1886 – 4 September 1951) was a British politician.

She completed a degree in modern history in 1904 at Somerville College, Oxford,[1] before becoming an inspector with the Ministry of Health, then in 1917 became the secretary to Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Member of Parliament for Nottingham South.

While working for Cavendish-Bentinck, she met Cecil Malone, Member of Parliament for Leyton East and the Communist Party of Great Britain's first MP.

[4] She worked with Dora Russell to successfully persuade the party to adopt a policy of making access to birth control easier.

In 1934, she was elected to the London County Council, representing West Fulham, and in 1937 she was made an alderman.