Woman Councillors: By our Special Correspondent: It is a matter of regret, to those who wish to see their own city in the van of progress, that neither of the great political parties in Sheffield (where municipal elections are run on purely Party Lines) is putting forward a woman candidate for the forthcoming City Council election … … … Miss Sutton, of Reading, who has been a Town Councillor since 1907, has already been elected unopposed. Miss Clara Martineau has also been returned without opposition in Birmingham, which already has a woman on the Council – Mrs. Hume Pinsent. Both these ladies are Unionists – Birmingham is not Sheffield. …
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949