Leah Manning
Politician
1886 – 1977
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Who was Leah Manning?
Dame Elizabeth Leah Manning DBE was a British educationalist, social reformer, and Labour Member of Parliament in the 1930s and 1940s. She organised the evacuation of orphaned or at risk Basque children during the Spanish Civil War.
Born as Elizabeth Leah Perrett, her parents emigrated to the United State when she was 14, but decided that she should remain in Britain, and she was looked after by her maternal grandparents, who were Methodists.
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