MAYORAL ELECTIONS

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 150, 21 December 1929, Page 21

MAYORAL ELECTIONS

MANY WOMEN SUCCESSFUL

(From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, 14th November.

The election of. Lord Mayors and Mayors in over 300 cities and boroughs in England and Wales took place on 9th November. More women have been chosen this year.

One-of -them, in London, is Lady Phipps, wife of Sir Edmund Phipps. who has been returned for Chelsea. For years \Lady Phipps has been actively associated with Chelsea's public work, and has been a member of the council since 1914. Besides being chairman of the Public Health Committee for nii> ) years, she is a member of the Housing Committee.'

The Countess of Warwick is Warwick's first woman Mayor. She is the widow of the sixth j earl, and sister of Captain Eobert Anthony Eden, M.P. for Warwick and Leamington. Monsfield chose Mrs. Ethel E. Wainwright. She, too, is the borough's first woman mayor. Hereford's first and only woman of the council, Mrs. Luard ■ —has been honoured with the mayoralty, and other boroughs have re-elect-ed women to serve for another term, including: Tynemouth, Dame Maud Burnett; Thetford, Mrs. L. E. Bidwell; Wrexham, Mrs. S. Edwards Jones (for the third time); Sandwich, Mrs. Andrewes Urthwatt; Stratford-on-Avon, Councillor Annie Justins; Welshpool, Mrs. J. H. Davies. ,-

At Higham Ferrers, Mrs. F. J. Simpson, wife of the town clerk of the borough, who has previously occupied the mayoralty, was again chosen, and Watford selected Mrs. A. F. Broad as the borough's first woman mayor. The Hon. John Coventry, son of the late Viscount Deerhurst, and brother of .the present Lord Deerhurst, waß elected v Mayor of Worcester. His mother, Virginia Viscountess Deerhurst, will act as Mayoress.

Miss Sara Sheerien, the nine-year-old daughter of Councillor Sheerien, the new Mayor of Barnsley, is believed to be the youngest Mayoress in the country.