Jane Cobden
Emma Jane Catherine Cobden was a British Liberal politician. She was an early proponent of women’s rights. In 1889 she was one of two women elected to the inaugural London County Council. As a convinced anti-imperialist she opposed the Boer War of 1899–1902. In 1928 she presented the old Cobden family residence, Dunford House, to the Cobden Memorial Association.
