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Ada Salter, ''née'' Brown (1866 – 5 December 1942) was an English socialist and pacifist. She was the first woman councillor in London and the first Labour woman mayor in the British Isles. ==Life== Born in Raunds, Ada Brown joined the West London Mission to work among the London poor. In 1897 transferred to the Bermondsey Settlement. There she met the future Labour politician Alfred Salter, then a student at Guy's Hospital. He converted her to socialism and she encouraged him to become a Christian. They joined the Peckham branch of the Society of Friends together, and were married on 22 August 1900. Alfred Salter set up a low-cost medical practice in Bermondsey, which soon was under pressure to expand. Though Ada initially joined the Liberal Party, she and her husband left to join the Independent Labour Party in 1908. In November 1909 Ada was elected to the borough council, becoming the first woman councillor in London.〔Brockway, p. 85〕 Personal tragedy struck when the couple's daughter Joyce – then eight years old – died of scarlet fever.〔Brockway, p. 34〕 Ada was defeated in the elections of 1912. During the First World War she and Alfred worked for the Non-Conscription Fellowship. She was also active in the Women's Labour League. At the end of the war she was amongst the British delegation to the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom conventions in Zürich and Vienna. Re-elected to Bermondsey Council in 1919, she was appointed Mayor of Bermondsey by the Labour majority in 1922, making her the first female Labour Mayor in the British Isles.〔 Concerned with public health in the 1920s, she was elected to the London County Council in 1925. She became Chair of the Parks Committee in 1934, and worked on behalf of the introduction of a Green Belt. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ada Salter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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