Elma Tryphosa Dangerfield CBE (11 October 1907 - 22 January 2006) was a British journalist, writer, campaigner and

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politician.

Background

She was born in

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as Elma Tryphosa Birkett but brought up partly in

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, and

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. She was educated in England at Beaufort School,

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, and

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. In 1926 she married Edward Dangerfield. They had one daughter. She was Secretary, then Director of the Byron Society from 1971-2006.

Political career

She was the Director of the European-Atlantic Group. She was a member of

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, and a Fellow of the

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. She contested Aberdeen South in the United Kingdom general election of 1959. She was Director, of the United Kingdom Council of the European Movement. She was Joint Executive Editor of European Review. She contested

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in the United Kingdom general election of 1964.The Times House of Commons, 1964

Election contests

In 1960 she was appointed OBE. In 2002 she was appointed a

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References

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