Ishbel MacDonald

Ishbel Allan Peterkin (; formerly Ridgley; 2 March 1903 – 20 June 1982) was the daughter of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Ramsay MacDonald and his wife Margaret MacDonald. and then at North London Collegiate School, where she was friendly with Peggy Angus. Before her father became Prime Minister, she had been studying social sciences. In 1931, she was elected to the London County Council as Labour Party member for Bow and Bromley. Unlike her father, she did not join National Labour, but as she remained hostess at 10 Downing Street, the Labour Group decided in November 1931 that she was ineligible to receive the Labour whip. She then sat as an Independent Socialist on the council.

Later life and death After her father retired as Prime Minister in 1935, she bought a country pub (The Old Plow, at Speen near High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire)