Beatrice Cartwright

Beatrice Anna Cartwright MBE (fl. 1888 – 1934) was an English local politician.

She was the daughter of Richard Aubrey Cartwright, who served as Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire.[1] She had several siblings including the art critic Julia Cartwright Ady.[2]

In 1888, she captained an active women’s cricket team which drew interest in the press as it played other women’s teams, including Dorothy Heseltine’s Hampshire eleven and a side raised by Florence Wray Myers.[3]

Beatrice held several positions in the town of Brackley, Northamptonshire, including Justice of the Peace, Poor Law Guardian,[4] and President of the Brackley Auxiliary.[5] A member of the Primrose League, she founded a Brackley branch of the Red Cross and managed a convalescent home during World War I.[6] In 1922, she became the first woman mayor of Brackley.[1]

She received an MBE in 1934 in recognition of her political and public services in Northamptonshire.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b Salway, Paul (2018). A Novel Match at Cricket: A History of Women's Cricket in an English Shire. Paragon Publishing. pp. 26–7. ISBN 978-1-78222-597-3.
  2. ^ Gordon, Peter (2006-02-16). Politics and Society: The Journals of Lady Knightley of Fawsley 1885-1913. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-26904-4.
  3. ^ Salway (2018), pp. 18-22.
  4. ^ Gordon, Peter (2006-02-16). Politics and Society: The Journals of Lady Knightley of Fawsley 1885-1913. Taylor & Francis. p. 515. ISBN 978-1-134-26905-1.
  5. ^ Animals, Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to (1920). Annual Report. The Society. p. 83.
  6. ^ Horn, Pamela (2014-09-15). Ladies of the Manor: How Wives & Daughters Really Lived in Country House Society Over a Century Ago. Amberley Publishing Limited. ISBN 978-1-4456-1989-7.
  7. ^ "No. 34056". The London Gazette. 1 June 1934. pp. 3555–3574.
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