Birmingham Municipal Elections: 155 Candidates for 90 Seats: today’s Withdrawals and Objections: An official return shows that yesterday 603 nomination papers for the forthcoming elections to the Greater Birmingham City Council were handed in, in respect of 155 candidates representing 156 nominations, one candidate being nominated in respect of two wards. There are 90 seats to be filled … (continues) … Two ladies were yesterday nominated, Mrs. Pinsent, for Edgbaston Ward and Miss Pugh for Erdington North, and it remains for the burgesses of those wards to say whether they desire the honour of being the first in Birmingham to elect ladies to the City Council … (continues)
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949