Who was the husband of the woman who opened the Flint House?
Police Rehabilitation Centre, Flint House The house and surrounding 14 acre estate were purchased by the Police Convalescent Home Management Committee on 20 April 1985 after the previous centre, Kingsway, was deemed to be too small. After renovation works, Flint House was opened as a Police Rehabilitation Centre by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother on 2 June 1988. The house had previously been a training centre for the Water Industry Training Board, and later Thames Water, complete with a complex system of pipes for trainees to detect leaks.
Martha Griffiths Martha Wright Griffiths (January 29, 1912 – April 22, 2003) was an American lawyer and judge before being elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1954. Griffiths was the first woman to serve on the House Committee on Ways and Means and the first woman elected to the United States Congress from Michigan as a member of the Democratic Party. She was also the person "instrumental" in including the prohibition of sex discrimination under Title VII in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In 1982, Griffiths was also the first female "elected" as Lieutenant Governor of Michigan. (Matilda Dodge Wilson had been "appointed" the first female Lieutenant Governor of Michigan in 1939).