Women in Local Government: Professor Ashley’s Challenge to Political Parties: Meeting in Birmingham: … … The report was adopted unanimously. It pointed out that the Government Franchise and Registration Bill, if passed, would limit the facilities of women for serving local government bodies because disqualified married women in England and Wales outside London as electors and councillors. This would deprive the Birmingham City Council of the valuable services of Mrs. Hume Pinsent, and the Committee wrote all local members of Parliament on the matter and received sympathetic replies from the majority. The withdrawal of the Government Bill had left the matter in abeyance for the present. …
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949