Mary Rhodes Moorhouse-Pekkala, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Mary Rhodes Moorhouse-Pekkala

Finnish patronage and civil rights activist

Date of Birth: 04-Sep-1889

Place of Birth: Tonbridge and Malling, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 15-Mar-1975

Profession: human rights activist

Nationality: Finland, United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Mary Rhodes Moorhouse-Pekkala (4 September 1889 – 5 March 1975) 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 getting married to 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.