Lady As Candidate: At a meeting of the Edgbaston Liberal Unionist Association, last night, it was decided to adopt Miss Clara Martineau as prospective candidate for the City Council at the next election in place of Mrs. Pinsent, who has given notice of her intention to retire. Miss Martineau said the present was a time when they ought all of them to assert the principles which had governed them for so many years, and she wanted to become a. councillor, not only as a woman, but as a Liberal Unionist.
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949