The Franchise and Registration Bill: The Franchise and Registration Bill has been withdrawn, but we consider it well worthwhile to direct the attention of the public to the effect which the bill, if passed, would have had on the local government franchise … …Moreover, in addition to re-affirming the sex inequalities intruded in 1894, the provision in the bill that married women in England and Wales outside London should not vote in county and town council elections would have rendered statutory a disability as to which revising barristers are not agreed, a result of which would have been to prevent the continuance of Mrs. Hume Pinsent’s services on the Birmingham City Council.
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949