Kent Siano Victoria (1898-1987)
English politician and lawyer. Born in Malaga in 1898. It was the first English woman who acted as a lawyer in court. He defended those charged with the Republican revolt Jaca in 1930.
Radical Socialist Party member, received a report of a deputy in the 1931 elections and during the parliamentary debate of the draft constitution, opposed granting the vote to women on equal terms with men , considering that the lack of training of women did not guarantee support for a liberal and democratic republic.
during the Second Republic Appointed Director General of Prisons (1931-1934), achieved great popularity for his attempts to reform the English prison system.
was a founding member and vice president of the Lyceum Club established in Madrid (1926) to discuss freely the problems of womanhood. Was elected to parliament in elections in 1931 and 1936. Exile at the end of the Civil War, he went to France and later moved to Mexico. Developed a significant intellectual work from the direction of Iberian magazine. He also published works such as Four years in Paria (1947) and four years of my life (1978). In 1978 he returned to Spain, but continued to maintain his residence in New York, where he died.
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