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WOMEN♦ 4# • % . 4 f mThe hon. secretary of the Women’s Local Government Society writes :-^-On February 13, 1912, there died in the fulness of years a courageous upholder of just causes, Miss Mabel Sharman Crawford. Miss Sharman• ,r, • * fa ' * '' 'Crawford signed the first memorial for legis-r women eligible' to county was presented to Lord SaliSr on May 20, 1889, just four days afterwas deprived of her seat bnoty Council on the ground of sex. Miss Sharman Crawford was a member of the committee from 1893 to 1905.On March 6, 1912, Miss Ellen Robinson,most widely known- as an active member ofthe Peace Society, died at Liverpool. Her long participation in all manner of humane purposes in Liverpool did not prevent her rejection at the ballot when she stood in 1907 for the city council. She then became a member of the board of guardians, and it was while resting on a couch on her return from a meeting of the board that she quietly ex-
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London Standard
London, Middlesex, GB
Fri, Mar 22, 1912
Page 11
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