Caroline Ganley

Caroline Selina Ganley, CBE, JP (née Blumfield; 16 September 1879 – 3 August 1966) was an English Labour and Co-operative Party politician.

Early life Ganley was born on 16 September 1879 in East Stonehouse, Devon, the daughter of a James Blumfield, a bombardier in the Royal Artillery, and Selina Mary Blumfield.

Political career She became politically active in opposition to the Boer War, declaring herself a pacifist, and joined the Social Democratic Federation that year. She actively supported women's suffrage and helped set up what would become the Women's Labour League branch in Battersea. She became involved in the British Committee of the International Congress for Peace and Freedom in 1914. A letter she wrote to the Sunday Chronicle meant that the wives of servicemen received their allowances through the Post Office. She narrowly held the seat in 1950 but was defeated by Ernest Partridge in 1951.

Ganley was elected a director of the West London Co-operative Society in 1918 and served on the board of its successor, the London Co-operative Society for many years and as president from 1942 to 1946 as its first woman president.

Personal life Ganley married tailor's cutter James Ganley in July 1901, with whom she had two sons and one daughter.