Shena Simon, Baroness Simon of Wythenshawe

[3] In 1911 Shena Potter became secretary of a committee for safeguarding women's rights under David Lloyd George's National Insurance Act 1911.

[1] She was introduced to Ernest Simon by Sydney and Beatrice Webb, who thought she would make an ideal wife for him.

[7] She felt that parks were important, and later was to observe that there was a severe shortage of such open space in Manchester.

She accepted the conventional division of labour between men and women, at least for the working classes, where the woman minded the home.

[9] In 1933 Simon, her husband and Eva Marian Hubback co-founded the Association for Education in Citizenship.

[5] Lady Simon became a member of the Labour Party in 1935, and was appointed to the Departmental Committee on Valuation of Dwelling Houses in 1938.

[12] In 1939 Shena Simon published her book A Hundred Years of City Government, Manchester 1838–1938.