| Annie Major | |
| Honorific Suffix: | MBE, JP |
| Birth Date: | 25 May 1904 |
| Birth Place: | Kingston Upon Hull, England |
| Occupation: | Politician and mayor |
Annie Major MBE (25 May 1904 – 22 January 1981) was Lord Mayor of Kingston upon Hull in 1965-66. Major was the first woman to be Lord Mayor of Kingston upon Hull.
Annie Major was born in Hull in 1904 to Robert Major and his wife Mary Anne (née Sanderson).[1]
Major worked for the Humber Rubber and Engineers' Supplies Ltd, becoming the secretary to the managing director.[2]
Major was elected as a Councillor in 1945 for the Municipal Association Group, serving until 1958, and again from 1960.[3] [4] In 1961 she was an unsuccessful candidate for the Aldermanic bench.[5] She was Lord Mayor in 1965-66.[6]
She was awarded the MBE in 1965.[7]
A portrait of her, painted by William Dring, was commissioned in 1966 for the Guildhall.[8]
She died in 1981, aged 76.[9]