Women in Local Government: The Women’s Local Government Society have published a leaflet dealing with the Franchise and Registration Bill. They point out that the Bill as introduced will re-enact all the anomalies at present prevailing in the local government franchise law in England and Wales. “It settles against women,” they state, “the point as to which revising barristers take different views, by providing definitely that married women in England and Wales outside London shall not vote in county and town council elections; and a consequence of such provision would be to prevent Mrs. Pinsent’s continuing to serve on the Birmingham City Council, because her eligibility to serve depends on her name remaining on the resistor of electors.”
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949