Franchise and Registration Bill: Position of Women in Local Government: The officers of the Women’s Local Government Society, Lady Strachey, Lady Lockyer and Miss A. L, Browne, send us the following letter: … includes … Moreover, in addition to reaffirming the sex inequalities introduced 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 led 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