human rights defender
Mary Rhodes Moorhouse-Pekkala.
Finnish patronage and civil rights activist
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About Mary Rhodes Moorhouse-Pekkala
Mary Rhodes Moorhouse-Pekkala was a British-born Finnish patronage and civil rights activist, who was an heiress to a wealthy New Zealand-British family. In the early 1920s, she was active in the Communist Party of Great Britain and the Comintern. Moorhouse emigrated to Finland in 1928 after marrying the Finnish Socialist politician Eino Pekkala. She was one of the major financiers of the 1930s Finnish cultural left, and a prominent civil rights activist.
Everything about Mary Rhodes Moorhouse-Pekkala →- Occupation
- human rights defender
- Citizenship
- Finland, United Kingdom
- Born
- September 4, 1889
- Died
- March 15, 1975