James Stansfeld
1820–98
Politician and social reformer. A supporter of the Northern Reform Union. Elected radical MP for Halifax, 1859. Financial secretary to the Treasury, 1869; president of the Local Government Board, 1871; appointed the first woman to be a poor-law inspector in 1872. Knighted, 1895.
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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