Constance Monks

Constance Mary Monks (20 May 1911 – 4 February 1989[1]), JP, OBE, née Green, was a British Conservative Party politician and teacher. She was also a partner with her husband in a newspaper business.

Constance Monks

Member of Parliament
for Chorley
In office
18 June 1970  28 February 1974
Preceded byClifford Kenyon
Succeeded byGeorge Rodgers
Personal details
Born
Constance Mary Green

(1911-05-20)20 May 1911
Died4 February 1989(1989-02-04) (aged 77)
Political partyConservative

Education

She was educated in Leeds, Yorkshire at the Leeds City Teacher Training College.[1]

Political career

She was a councillor on Chorley Municipal Borough Council from 1947–67 during which time she was Mayor from 1959–60. She was also a councillor on Lancashire County Council from 1961–64.[1]

Monks was elected on her second attempt as Member of Parliament for Chorley constituency in 1970, but lost in February 1974 to the Labour candidate George Rodgers. Monks was the first, and so far the only, female MP for Chorley. She was a Justice of the Peace (JP) and was awarded the OBE in 1962.[1]

References

  • Times Guide to the House of Commons February 1974
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Clifford Kenyon
Member of Parliament for Chorley
1970February 1974
Succeeded by
George Rodgers


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