Jane Cobden
Emma Jane Catherine Cobden , known as Jane Cobden, was a British Liberal politician who was active in many radical causes in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A daughter of the Victorian reformer and statesman Richard Cobden, she was an early proponent of womens rights, and in 1889 was one of two women elected to the inaugural London County Council. Her election was controversial legal challenges to her eligibility hampered and eventually prevented her from serving as a councillor.
Jane Cobden was born onApril 1851 in Westbourne Terrace, London. She was the third daughter and fourth child of Richard Cobden, who at the time of her birth was a Radical MP for the West Riding. With John Bright he had cofounded the AntiCorn Law League which in the 1840s had spearheaded the successful campaign for the abolition of the Corn Laws. Janes mother was Catherine Anne, ne Williams, the daughter of a timber merchant from Machynlleth in Wales the older Cobden children were Richard , born 1841 Kate, born 1844 and Ellen, born 1848. Two further daughters followed Jane Anne, born 1853, and Lucy, born 1861.
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