Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Jane Cobden

Jane Cobden

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The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/July 10, 2014 by BencherliteTalk 21:10, 25 June 2014 (UTC)



Jane Cobden (1851–1947)  was a British  Liberal politician and radical activist. An early proponent of women's rights, she was one of two women elected to the inaugural London County Council in 1889, although legal challenges to her eligibility hampered and eventually prevented her from serving as a councillor. Throughout her life she sought to protect and develop the legacy of her father, the Victorian reformer and statesman Richard Cobden, in particular the causes of land reform, peace, social justice and women's suffrage, and she was a consistent advocate for Irish independence. In the 1890s she extended her interests to advancing the rights of the indigenous populations within colonial territories. She opposed the Boer War of 1899–1902, but after the establishment of the Union of South Africa in 1910 she attacked its introduction of segregationist policies. Prior to the First World War she spoke out against Joseph Chamberlain's tariff reform crusade on the grounds of her father's free trade principles, and was prominent in the Liberal Party's revival of the land reform issue. In 1928 she presented the old Cobden family residence, Dunford House, to the Cobden Memorial Association as a centre dedicated to the issues and causes that had defined "Cobdenism".
 * Most recent similar article(s): Can't see anything remotely similar recently. I don't think that the Confederacy president Jefferson Davis (June 3) really counts as a match
 * Main editors: Brianboulton
 * Promoted: 2013
 * Reasons for nomination: No date relevance, but another strong woman at TFA is always worth while.
 * Support as nominator. Brianboulton (talk) 10:29, 25 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Support per Brianboulton. Belle (talk) 10:59, 25 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Support strong woman who lived to be 96, as the nice infobox tells us, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:25, 25 June 2014 (UTC)