biography
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Atholl, Katherine Marjory Murray, Duchess of
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née Russell
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pronunciation:
[athol]
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| lived:
| (1874–1960)
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| biography:
| Conservative politician, born in Banff, Aberdeenshire, NE Scotland, UK. She studied at the Royal College of Music, and was an accomplished pianist and composer. In 1899 she married the future 8th Duke of Atholl, John George Murray (1871–1942), becoming Duchess of Atholl in 1917. She became MP for Kinross and Perthshire in 1923, and was the first Conservative woman minister as parliamentary secretary to the Board of Education (1924–9). She was responsible for translating an unexpurgated edition of Mein Kampf to warn of Hitler's intentions, and published the best-selling Searchlight on Spain in 1938. After losing her parliamentary seat in 1939, she worked to aid refugees from totalitarianism. |
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