Eleanor Joan Clara Nathan (28 October 1892 - 6 June 1972), née Stettauer, known as Lady Nathan from 1940, was a local politician.
She was the daughter of Carl Stettauer, a German-born leather merchant. In 1919 she married Harry Louis Nathan. Both she and her husband were involved in Liberal Party politics in Bethnal Green. He was member of parliament for Bethnal Green North East from 1929-35 while she was a member of the London County Council also representing Bethnal Green North East from 1928-34. In 1934 she lost her seat on the county council, and in the same year both she and her husband defected to the Labour Party.
In 1937 she returned to the county council as a representative of Wandsworth Central in the same year that her husband was elected as member of parliament for the same area. In 1940 her husband became Baron Nathan of Churt in the County of Surrey and she became known as "Lady Nathan". She held her seat on the county council until 1949. She was Chairman of the London County Council for 1947-48. In 1949 the council's electoral boundaries were changed and she stood at Fulham West but failed to be elected. In 1951 she returned to the county council as an alderman, a post she held until the LCC's abolition in 1965. She was a member of the LCC's Education Committee from 1937 and following its abolition was co-opted onto the Inner London Education Authority until 1967.
First Woman Member of Metropolitan Water Board, 1937–46; Member of Home Office Committee of Enquiry into Closing Hours of Shops (Gowers Committee), 1946–49.
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