Lady Pioneer: Mrs. Pinsent, a member of the Birmingham Corporation, caused a decided sensation at the meeting of the Association of Municipal Corporations yesterday. She is the first woman who has ever been elected to represent a municipality at the annual meeting of the association. The strangeness of the situation completely upset the municipal dignitaries from the Lord Mayor of London downwards. The Lord Mayor called her “my lady” and so did several others. Mrs. Pinsent signaled her accession to the association by a well-reasoned address on the putting into force of the recommendations of the Royal Commission on the care and control of the feeble-minded, of which she herself was a valuable member.
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949