1. Helen Caroline Bentwich was a British philanthropist and politician.
11 Facts About Helen Bentwich
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Helen Bentwich's father, Arthur Ellis Franklin, was a merchant banker and her uncles Herbert and Stuart Samuel were leading politicians.
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Helen Bentwich's siblings included Hugh Franklin, a suffragist, and Ellis Arthur Franklin, another banker and eventual vice-principal of the Working Men's College.
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Helen Bentwich attended St Paul's Girls' School and Bedford College.
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Helen Bentwich fought for the rights of women workers and tried to form a trade union.
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Helen Bentwich organised nursery schools, formed arts and crafts centres, and became honorary secretary of the Palestine Council of Jewish Women.
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Helen Bentwich had mixed feelings about later developments in the region:.
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Helen Bentwich became chairman of the education committee in 1947, alderman in 1949, vice-chair in 1950, and chairman of the council from 1956 to 1957.
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Helen Bentwich followed him in Cairo, Egypt, shortly after their wedding.
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Helen Bentwich died at her home in Hampstead, London, in 1972, a year after her husband.
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The archives of Helen Bentwich are held at The Women's Library at the Library of the London School of Economics.