Margaret Beavan
Margaret Beavan (1877 – 22 February 1931) was an English politician who was the first female Lord Mayor of Liverpool in 1927.[1][2][3][4]
Beaven attended Belvidere School, and then the Royal Holloway College.[5] She was also educated at Liverpool High School, in the same form as Maude Royden. Outside of her political career, she was a well known campaigner for the welfare of children and their mothers.[6] She founded the Liverpool Child Welfare Association, Liverpool Open Air Hospital for Children, Royal Liverpool Babies Hospital, Ellen Gonner Convalescent Home, and the Tired Mothers' Rest Home.[5]
In 1927, Beaven became the first woman Lord Mayor of Liverpool. At the 1929 United Kingdom general election, she stood unsuccessfully as a Conservative Party candidate in Liverpool Everton. She was also a member of the National Council of Women of Great Britain.[5]
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- ^ International Women’s Day – Margaret Beavan, Liverpool’s First Woman Lord Mayor, liverpoolmuseums.org.uk
- ^ The Work of Margaret Beavan, merseyside-at-war.org
- ^ MOTHER OF LIVERPOOL MEETS MUSSOLINI liverpoolhiddenhistory.co.uk
- ^ "Liverpool City Council - Proceedings of the Council 1927-1928 page 5". Retrieved 4 August 2017.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Beaven, Margaret". Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U205864. Cite journal requires
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(help) - ^ Clare Debenham (18 December 2013). Birth Control and the Rights of Women: Post-suffrage Feminism in the Early Twentieth Century. I.B.Tauris. pp. 172–173. ISBN 978-1-78076-435-1.
- 1877 births
- 1931 deaths
- Alumni of Royal Holloway, University of London
- Conservative Party (UK) councillors
- Conservative Party (UK) parliamentary candidates
- Mayors of Liverpool
- British politician stubs