South Yorkshire Times – Saturday 10 January 1942.

News has been received in Wombwell of the death in London of Mrs. Isabel Hilyer, who contested the Wentworth Division in the Liberal National interest in the 1931 Parliamentary general election. She was about 60 years of age. The intimation came to Mrs. G. Hinchcliffe of Summer Lane, Wombwell, with whom Mrs. Hilyer stayed during the election campaign.

Mrs. Hilyer will be remembered by many in this district as a charming and accomplished person and a very good speaker. She contested the division with considerable zeal and made many friends even among her opponents.

One of the highlights of her campaign was when she visited the underground workings at Elsecar Main Colliery.

In a straight fight the late Mr. G H Hirst defeated her with a majority of over 17,000 but the fact that Mrs. Hilyer was able to poll 14,462 votes in a Labour stronghold was a tribute alike to her winning personality and her grasp of political philosophy,

Mrs. Hilyer formed a genuine liking for Wombwell people and in her letters to Mrs. Hinchliffe has invariably asked to be remembered to the folk who showed her such great kindness The fact that she was rejected by Wentworth had no effect on her admiration for the miners, nor did the workers of this district think any less of her personally on that account. It was characteristic of the womanly instinct in Mrs Hilyer that she always took the keenest interest in Mrs. Hinchcliffe’s boys, and that at her invitation Mrs. Hinchcliffe spent a holiday with Mrs. Hilver and her husband in Bournemouth. Mrs Hinchcliffe remembers them “among the most charming people I have ever met.”

Mrs Hilver devoted a good deal of her time to political and local government activity in London and recently has been engrossed in war work. Mrs Hinchcliffe says she can quite believe that her death has been hastened by overwork.