Mabel Fletcher

Mabel Fletcher (died 1955) was an English local politician, the first woman alderman.[1]

A "keen Tory", Fletcher was a member of the Ladies Branch of the Liverpool Civic Service League (CSL).[2] She was elected to Liverpool City Council in 1919.[1] She died in hospital at Fazakerley, Liverpool on 2 December 1955.[1]

She has sometimes been confused with Muriel E. Fletcher, author of the 1930 'Fletcher report' on racial mixing in Liverpool.[3]

References

  1. 'Alderman Miss Mabel Fletcher', The Manchester Guardian, 3 December 1955, p.2.
  2. Krista Cowman (2004). Mrs Brown is a Man and a Brother: Women in Merseyside's Political Organisations, 1890-1920. Liverpool University Press. p. 149. ISBN 978-0-85323-738-9.
  3. John Belchem (2014). Before the Windrush: Race Relations in Twentieth-century Liverpool. Oxford University Press. p. 4. ISBN 978-1-84631-967-9.
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