Margaret Beavan

Margaret Beavan (1877-1931) was an English politician who was the first female Lord Mayor of Liverpool in 1929.[1][2][3]

She was 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.[4]

References

  1. ↑ International Women’s Day – Margaret Beavan, Liverpool’s First Woman Lord Mayor, liverpoolmuseums.org.uk
  2. ↑ The Work of Margaret Beavan, merseyside-at-war.org
  3. ↑ MOTHER OF LIVERPOOL MEETS MUSSOLINI liverpoolhiddenhistory.co.uk
  4. ↑ 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.
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