10 Facts About Eveline Hill

Eveline Hill, JP was a British catering business manager and Conservative Party politician.

Eveline Hill served for fourteen years as the Member of Parliament for Manchester Wythenshawe.

Eveline Hill became involved in the Conservative Party and in 1936 was elected to Manchester City Council from Didsbury ward.

At the 1950 general election, Eveline Hill was elected as Conservative Member of Parliament for Manchester Wythenshawe, a newly created constituency at the southern end of Manchester which included her ward.

In November 1950 Eveline Hill won a spot in the ballot for Private Member's Bills, and introduced the Deserted Wives Bill which proposed to allow courts to award tenancy of a house and ownership of the chattels within it to a wife who had been deserted by her husband.

Eveline Hill broke the Conservative whip to oppose changes in the Manchester constituency boundaries in 1954, and found herself in a slightly less favourable position at the 1955 general election; she was re-elected by 2,822 votes.

Eveline Hill became chairman of the Conservative backbench committee on Health and Social Security, and in 1958 supported government proposals to increase National Health Service charges, arguing that people who made contributions were putting something away for a rainy day in the traditional manner.

Eveline Hill rebelled the next year over a Bill setting up a training council for Health visitors, to increase the council's power to make grants.

Eveline Hill joined the rebellion over the abolition of resale price maintenance in 1964.

Eveline Hill had retained her seat on Manchester City Council throughout her time in Parliament, but retired in 1966; the Council appointed her as an honorary Alderman in honour of her years of service.