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'''Agatha Mary Harrison''' (1885–1954) was an English industrial welfare reformer and unofficial diplomat.<br />
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==Life==<br />
Harrison was born in [[Sandhurst, Berkshire]] to a Methodist minister and his wife.<ref name=help/> She did not attend university but she gained some education as a pupil teacher.<ref name=quake>[http://www.quakersintheworld.org/quakers-in-action/194/Agatha-Harrison Agatha Harrison], Quakers in Action, Retrieved 20 March 2017</ref> She joined Boots the Chemist and then the [[Metal Box Company]] where she was an advocate for women's rights. Despite her lack of academic qualification she was appointed to the first Industrial Relations academic post at the [[London School of Economics]]<ref name=quake/> in 1917. Three years later the [[Young Women's Christian Association]] sent her to investigate industrial conditions in China. She found child labour and she managed the difficult task of persuading employers to stop this exploitation.<ref name=bio><br />
Geoffrey Carnall, ‘Harrison, Agatha Mary (1885–1954)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/47749, accessed 20 March 2017]</ref> In the 1920s she went to America to continue her work with the YWCA. She returned to the UK in 1928 to work for the [[Women's International League for Peace and Freedom]]. She served as an assistant to [[Beryl Power]] who was working for the Whitley Commission looking at labour conditions.<br />
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She met Gandhi and agreed to help him with the cause of India's independence. She spent long periods in India working so closely with Gandhi that she was a go-between during his hunger strike in 1939. After the war she returned to help with negotiations. She and [[Charles Freer Andrews]] arranged for Gandhi to visit the UK.<ref name=help>[http://www.open.ac.uk/researchprojects/makingbritain/content/agatha-harrison Agatha Harrison], Open University, Retrieved 20 March 2017</ref><br />
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==Death and legacy==<br />
Harrison died in [[Geneva]] in 1954 at a peace conference held to discuss the [[French Indochina War]]<ref name=quake/> and she was buried locally. The Indian government founded a scholarship in Harrison's name at [[St Antony's College, Oxford]].<ref name=sch>[http://ukstudentadviser.com/blog/agatha-harrison-memorial-fellowship-indian-student-uk-2016-2017/ Agatha Harrison Memorial Fellowship for Indian Student in the UK, 2016-2017], 2016, Retrieved 20 March 2017</ref><br />
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