2-715-416 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

George Lansbury, c1930, (1935). Portrait of British politician George Lansbury (1859-1940) who became a socialist in the early 1890s, and was elected to Parliament in 1910. He resigned his seat to campaign for women's suffrage, and later led the Labour Party from 1932 to 1935. 'Mr. George Lansbury created London's "Lido", an open-air bathing station on the Serpentine in Hyde Park'. From "The Silver Jubilee Book - The Story of 25 Eventful Years in Pictures". [Odhams Press Ltd., London, 1935]