Nina Boyle

Constance Antonina Boyle , was a British journalist, campaigner for womens suffrage and womens rights, charity and welfare worker and novelist. She was one of the pioneers of the womens police service in Britain and in April 1918 she was the first woman to be nominated to stand for election to the House of Commons, paving the way for other female candidates at the general election later that year.

Nina Boyle was born in Bexley in Kent. Through her father, Robert Boyle , a captain in the Royal Artillery and younger son of David Boyle, Lord Boyle, she was descended from the family of the Earls of Glasgow. Her mother was Frances Sydney Fremoult Sankey, the daughter of a medical doctor. She never married.

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