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Ethel Bentham
Ethel Bentham, (5 January 1861 – 19 January 1931) was a progressive doctor, a politician and a suffragist in the United Kingdom. She was born in London, educated at Alexandra School and College in Dublin, the London School of Medicine for Women and the Rotunda Hospital.
Early life and education.
Bentham was born in London, to William Bentham, an inspector and later general manager of the Standard Life Assurance Company, and Mary Ann Hammond. She was raised in Dublin, where her
National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies in 1906. At Maud's instigation the Fabian Society's statement of its basic aims included a clause on equal citizenship in 1907, when she was elected, with Ethel Bentham and Marian Phillips, to the society's executive committee.
Maud founded the Fabian Women’s Group with Charlotte Wilson in 1908. Held in Maud's Brunswick Gardens drawing-room early in 1908, after a winter of suffrage agitation. “the FWG intended both to give women more prominence in the Fabian Society and