The First Married Woman on a Municipal Council: It is interesting to note (says the “Anti-Suffrage Review” that Mrs. Hume Pinsent who got in at Birmingham, is the first married woman to be elected to serve on a municipal council. This is owing to the decision in October 1909, of Mr. Brookes, the revising barrister for Birmingham, which enabled the overseers to place duly qualified married women on the burgess roll without further question, in virtue of the Qualifications of Women Act of 1907. Mr. Brookes held that, as none, but electors are eligible to county and town councils the enabling Act must have been intended to remove the electoral disability of married women. All revising barristers do not, however, take this view.
[see similar Nuneaton Observer; Friday 5th January 1912]
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949