What is Ellen Wilkinson?
{{unsourced|date=November 2013}} '''Ellen Cicely Wilkinson''' (8 October 1891 – 6 February 1947) was an [[English people|English]] [[politician]]. She was a [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] [[Member of Parliament]] for [[Middlesbrough]] and later [[Jarrow]]. Wilkinson was one of the first females in [[United Kingdom|Britain]] to become a Member of the [[British Parliament]]. She was one of the founding members for the [[Communist Party of Great Britain|Communist Party]] around 1920. Ellen was born in [[Ardwick]], [[Manchester]]. She committed [[suicide]] with an [[overdose]] of [[barbiturate]]s. Wilkinson died in [[St Mary's Hospital, London|St Mary's Hospital]], [[London]] at age fifty-five. {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Wilkinson, Ellen}} [[Category:Drug-related suicides]] [[Category:Labour Party (UK) MPs]] [[Category:Suicides in the United Kingdom]] [[Category:1891 births]] [[Category:1947 deaths]] [[Category:Politicians from Manchester]]