National Union of Women Workers: Opening of the Conference in Birmingham … … Address of Welcome: Experience in public speaking may be expected to come to the Lady Mayoress of so important a city as Birmingham, but It was especially well turned and clearly delivered speech that Mrs. Beale delivered on this occasion … … They were proud of the educational institutions. Speaking of the schools for defective children, the Lady Mayoress alluded to their townswoman, Mrs. Hume Pinsent, the writer, and an authority on this branch of education, upon whom the honour had been bestowed of being invited to serve upon the Royal Commission to consider the condition of the feeble minded. She went on to speak of the great university buildings which were slowly rising from the ground and promised to be among the largest in England … (continues) …
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949