Margaret Beavan

Margaret Beavan (1877-1931) was an English politician who was the first female Lord Mayor of Liverpool in 1927.^[1]^[2]^[3] ^[4]

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.^[5]

References

↑ 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.
↑ 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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[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] "Liverpool City Council - Proceedings of the Council 1927-1928 page 5". Retrieved 4 August 2017.

[5] 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.