Marjory Newbold (25 May 1883 – 15 November 1926) was a leading Scottish socialist and communist, prominent in the Independent Labour Party[1] and in the 'Red Clydeside' movement demanding reforms for the working class.

[5] By 1911, Newbold was a school teacher, and herself a boarder with George and Marion Kirkcaldy at 96 Glasgow Road, Wishaw,[6] an industrial area where she saw the deprivation endured by children of working families and poor and limited facilities for their education.

[1] Whilst still a student, Newbold joined the Independent Labour Party and adopted atheist, feminist and socialist beliefs which she put into activism for improving conditions for the working classes.

[1] On 24 April 1920, the Newbolds were living at 6 Grange Road, Buxton, Derbyshire and Marjory Newbold was the chair of the National Young Labour League[11] and writing in communist press, to encourage donations following resolution of the Conference of the League for Communist Youth (Berlin November 1919) for a memorial circulating collection of the works of Karl Leibknecht, from America, Norway, Sweden, Holland and Italy.

[1] Newbold wrote about her experience in Petrograd for The Communist, describing visits to sumptuous palaces that had been taken over for workers' accommodation for recuperation from poverty and malnutrition and in need of health care.

Newbold also found that a former sugar factory owner's 105 room holiday home now housed not a rich couple, but 150 workers, where the head of food provision for the two-week respite was a former chef to Tsar Nicholas II, and seven boats were available for use on the artificial lake.

Newbold herself was not physically strong and her fellow delegate Dora Russell, noted that she was:small, very thin and pale and not unlike the ILP leader James Maxton.

[1] In 1923, Newbold was a member of Helen Crawfurd's committee raising funds or encouraging donations of clothing for 1,400 of the over 2 million starving and homeless Russian children, along with Evelyn Sharp, George Lansbury MP, Honoria Enfield, Dr V.N.

[17] After the International Congress, Newbold's health deteriorated, coming home 'a shadow of her former self' with a 'lingering illness from which she was never to recover'[7] due to a fatal infection of tuberculosis,[1] which prevented her continuing active political leadership.