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Her name is Marion

 

* Marion Chanter

..... FIRST ever woman winner of the Krypton Factor in 1987 after ten years of male dominance. Alison Heath, representing the UK, was runner-up with 6 points behind and in 1988  was the World  Wide International Champion

 

* Marion Wallace Dunlop

..... on July 5th 1909 she became the FIRST person to conduct a hunger strike in Great Britain . She was a suffragette who had been sentenced to one month's imprisonment for painting a clause from the Bill of Rights on the House of Commons. She was committed to Holloway on the 1st July and began refusing food on the 5th. The most appetising food was left by her bedside but she refused it and maintained her fast for 91 hours. She was then released. Forcible feeding was first introduced in September of the same year when milk and meat juices were poured down a tube which had been inserted down the gullet or through the nostrils

 

* Marion Evans

..... FIRST woman partner in the UK operation of Deloitte, Haskins and Sells , one of the largest accountancy firms in the world where she headed the corporate tax section of their Cardiff office. The company had two women partners in America, one in Canada and one in Aberdeen. In 1980 only 4% of chartered accountants in the UK were women

 

* Marion Fox

..... FIRST childminder in Salford and one of only a few in the country to be graded as 'outstanding' on her latest inspection by education watchdog Ofsted - August 2005

 

* Marion Gilchrist

..... FIRST woman to receive a medical degree in Scotland

 

* Marion Grant

..... FIRST woman designer of stained glass windows

 

* Marion Tessa Gray

born June 2nd 1947 died 1991

..... homeopathic practitioner who was one of the FIRST women to work in the Flying Doctor Service in Western Australia

 

* Marion Hammer

..... in 1996 she became the FIRST woman President of the National Rifle Association, the backbone of America's powerful pro-gun lobby, in its 125- year history

 

* Marion Mahony

born 1871  died 1961

..... FIRST woman to receive a degree in architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

* Marion Mingins

..... one of the FIRST women deacons in the Church of England when ordained at Southwark Cathedral in 1987 and became a priest in April 1994. On 2nd March 1996 she became the FIRST woman Church of England Chaplain to the Queen when she joined the Ecclesiastical Household of 34 chaplains, including a woman Church of Scotland chaplain, to share in their duties at the Chapels Royal

 

* Marion Monroe

..... daughter of James Monroe, the 5th U.S President and the FIRST presidential offspring to be married in the White House

 

* Marion Mould

..... FIRST woman to win an individual title in the Olympic Games show-jumping event

 

* Marion Robertson

..... FIRST woman President of the Glasgow branch of the NUPBPW , which she joined as a teenager in 1927 and attended the union's FIRST Women's Committee meeting in London

 

* Marion Taylor

born 8th February 1922

..... FIRST woman delegate of the Hearts of Oak Benefit Society when in December 1983 she put up for election. In 1988 she was elected Vice President and subsequently in 1989 became the FIRST woman President. The Hearts of Oak Benefit Society is a Friendly Society established in 1842 and Marion joined in 1948. Through her husband she took an interest in the Delegate Board and on his death put herself up for election. She retired at the age of 70

 

* Marion Wilberforce

 ne้ Ogilvie-Forbes

 born July 22nd 1902 died 1996

..... one of the FIRST eight women pilots selected by the Air Transport Auxiliary in 1940 to 'ferry' the light type of trainer aircraft from factory to aerodrome ( see Pauline Gower) and FIRST woman Master of Foxhounds in the 236-year history of the Essex Union Hunt. She was one of the band of early women aviators and gained her pilot's licence in 1930 and seven years later bought her first aircraft.  By the time she joined the ATA she had 900 flying hours to her credit and by the end of the war had flown most of the 130 types of aircraft ferried by the ATA. She was aged 80 when she eventually gave up flying

 

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