Women on Municipalities: Mrs. Pinsent, a member of the Birmingham Corporation is the first woman elected to represent a municipality at the annual meeting of the Association of Municipal Corporations. It is, however, four years since women could become members of municipal corporations and thus secure election to the Association. At the meeting of the Association Mrs. Pinsent gave an 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 member. It was agreed to impress upon the Government the need for the early enactment of the promised measure.
(see also Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough: Wednesday 29th May 1912).
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949