1. Ida Copeland was an Anglo-Italian British politician.
14 Facts About Ida Copeland
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Ida Copeland was active in social welfare both locally and nationally, particularly the Girl Guides, and was one of the earliest women to enter Parliament, sitting as Conservative MP for Stoke from 1931 to 1935.
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Ida Copeland was the great-granddaughter of Cavalier Emanuele Fenzi, Senator of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany and banker, granddaughter of Cavalier Sebastiano Fenzi and his wife, Emily Verity.
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Ida Copeland grew up in Italy and moved to England at the end of the 19th century.
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On 28 July 1915, Ida Fenzi wed Ronald Copeland of Staffordshire, grandson of William Taylor Copeland, Lord Mayor of London, president and chairman of the Spode-Copeland firm of bone china manufacturers in Staffordshire, potters to the royal family since 1806.
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Ida Copeland was an active participant in the success of the Girl Guides, and was a member of the International Council of Girl Guides from 1920 to 1928 and from 1940 to 1948.
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Ida Copeland's husband Ronald was a county commissioner for the Boy Scout Association.
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Later the Ida Copeland family donated the Kibblestone Hall Estate to the Staffordshire Scouting Movement to be used as a Scout camp.
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Ida Copeland won by an impressive majority of 6,654 votes.
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Ida Copeland was the 25th woman to be elected to the House of Commons.
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In May 1932, Ida Copeland made her maiden speech on import duties, which she approached "entirely from the point of view of the pottery industry".
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Ida Copeland believed that overseas manufacturers paid starvation wages to their workers, and it was with a critical eye on the opposition benches that she asked:.
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Ida Copeland made another plea for protection of the china industry in December 1933 after reports that Australian and New Zealand markets were being flooded by cheap Japanese goods, including skilful imitations of British wares: "the competition is so severe that it threatens to sweep the English Potteries right out of those countries".
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Ida Copeland wanted the British government to compel the Dominion governments, in their own interests as much as in Britain's, to take action to prevent this "dumping".