Ethel Wormald
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Dame Ethel Wormald, DBE, OBE, DL, JP, the second woman Lord Mayor of Liverpool (born 19 November 1901 — died 23 February 1993) was a British politician, educationist and social activist. She was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her efforts.
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[edit] Biography
Born as Ethel May Robinson, she attended Leeds University on scholarship. After graduating she married Stanley Wormald. The couple would have two sons. The family relocated to Liverpool after Stanley Wormald took up employment at the Liverpool Institute.[1]
[edit] Political career/activism
She was involved the Personal Aid Society and the Socialist Educational Association. She stood in 1953 as a Labour candidate for Kensington, Liverpool. She served on the council until 1968, chairing the Education Committee from 1955-61, and again from 1963-67. She fought for comprehensive education legislation that would abolish selection. In 1967, she became the second woman named Lord Mayor of Liverpool.
She became a member of Liverpool Regional Hospital Board and fought to establish a day centre for mentally ill patients who had been discharged from local hospitals without options.[2]
Several years before her death she moved to Bethesda, Wales with her younger son, Michael Wormald, a Labour councillor in Arfon for twelve years.
[edit] Death
She died at Bangor, Gwynedd on 23 February 1993, aged 91.[3]
[edit] Legacy
The Ethel Wormald College, a day school which gave older or mature students the opportunity to train as teachers without having to spend time in residential colleges.
