Marion Shimmin (née Fallows) was elected in 1933 as the first woman member of the

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representing the constituency of

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. She replaced her husband, Christopher R. Shimmin, who died in January 1933.''The Isle of Man''
by Maxwell Fraser, 1940, available on www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook Both Marion and Christopher were MHKs representing the

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