Municipal Registers: Anomalies in Respect of Women Electors: To the Editor of the “Daily Citizen”. Sir, – The Franchise and Registration Bill has been withdrawn, but we consider it well worthwhile to direct the attention of the public to the effect which the Bill, if passed, would have had on the local government franchise … (A bill designed to provide women with the right to vote failed to remove anomalies already in the system) … The result of such action would have been to perpetuate injustice and to stereotype disabilities. 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 should have rendered statutory a disability, as to which revising barristers are not agreed, a result of which would have been to prevent the continuance of Mrs. Hume Pinsent’s services on the Birmingham City Council. … (continues) … Signed: Jane M. Strachey, president: T. Mary Lockyer, hon. treasurer; Annie Leigh Browne, hon. Secretary. [Women’s Local Government Society]
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949