Cynthia Blanche Mosley (generally known as Cimmie) - Politician. The younger daughter of Lord Curzon, British Foreign Secretary in the early 1920s, and Mary Leiter. She married Oswald Mosley on 11 May 1920. He was then the Conservative Member of Parliament for Harrow. However, in 1924 they both joined the Labour Party. She joined him in Parliament in 1929, when she was elected as Labour MP for Stoke. Increasingly frustrated by the complacent and conservative approach towards rapidly rising unemployment from the then Prime MInister, Ramsay MacDonald, they both left the Labour Party in 1931 - together with several other MPs - to form the New Party. However, her health was not good, and she did not defend her seat in 1931, when all of the New Party MPs lost their seats. Increasingly from this point, Sir Oswald Mosley moved to the far right of the political spectrum and Fascism, to the mounting distress of his wife, who had a deep loathing for the Conservative Party. She died of perionitis, after a failed operation for appendicitis, at the age of only 34.
Cynthia Blanche Mosley (generally known as Cimmie) - Politician. The younger daughter of Lord Curzon, British Foreign Secretary in the early 1920s, and Mary Leiter. She married Oswald Mosley on 11 May 1920. He was then the Conservative Member of Parliament for Harrow. However, in 1924 they both joined the Labour Party. She joined him in Parliament in 1929, when she was elected as Labour MP for Stoke. Increasingly frustrated by the complacent and conservative approach towards rapidly rising unemployment from the then Prime MInister, Ramsay MacDonald, they both left the Labour Party in 1931 - together with several other MPs - to form the New Party. However, her health was not good, and she did not defend her seat in 1931, when all of the New Party MPs lost their seats. Increasingly from this point, Sir Oswald Mosley moved to the far right of the political spectrum and Fascism, to the mounting distress of his wife, who had a deep loathing for the Conservative Party. She died of perionitis, after a failed operation for appendicitis, at the age of only 34.
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