Mabel Fletcher Explained

Mabel Fletcher (died 1955) was an English local politician, the first woman alderman.^[1]

A "keen Tory", Fletcher was a member of the Ladies Branch of the Liverpool Civic Service League (CSL).^[2] She was elected to Liverpool City Council in 1919.^[1] She died in hospital at Fazakerley, Liverpool on 2 December 1955.^[1]

She has sometimes been confused with Muriel E. Fletcher, author of the 1930 'Fletcher report' on racial mixing in Liverpool.^[3]

Notes and References

1. 'Alderman Miss Mabel Fletcher', The Manchester Guardian, 3 December 1955, p.2.
2. Book: Krista Cowman. Mrs Brown is a Man and a Brother: Women in Merseyside's Political Organisations, 1890-1920. registration. 2004. Liverpool University Press. 978-0-85323-738-9. 149.
3. Book: John Belchem. Before the Windrush: Race Relations in Twentieth-century Liverpool. 2014. Oxford University Press. 978-1-84631-967-9. 4.