MAYORS' POLITICS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 662, 12 November 1909, Page 7

MAYORS' POLITICS.

.re-election op the only english ■ ; ; .■■.■■■ .. mayoress. .; ■"• ;; ;-■■'■ ■ ■ (ny Telesraph.-Press ABeociation.-Oopytieftt.) ■ London, November 10. Of the Lord Mayors and Mayors of England and Wales, elected last week, the political views are stated to be as nnderir' Conservative 182. . ' ' Liberal '105 Liberal Unionist .....;... 1? ' Labour 5 Dr. (Mrs.) Garrett Anderson has been re-' elected Mayoress Of Aldoburgh, in Suffolk. . Mr. George Clarte, an ; ex-policeman',: has been elected Mayor of .Kingston, in Surrey.. . , ■'.'■■■ ;; MRS. GARRETT ANDERSON.;; Mrs. Garrett Anderson was , born in 1836, her father being the late llr. Newsou Garrett, the first. Mayor of Aldeburgh when the borough became a reformed corporation.' Mrs. Anderson' and several of her sisters, including Mrs. I'awcott and Miss, Rhoda Garrett, worked' «calously in favour,of woman sull'rago quite.thirty years - ago. Before that date Mrs. AndoKon bogan to study modicirie , . ' -In 1860 tho Colleges of Surgeons and Physicians refused to admit her to their examinations, but in 1865 she obtained tho license of the Society of Apothecaries to .-.practise, and about the time took tho degree of M.D.' afthe University of Paris. .She was elected at'the top of the poll' for Maifylebone 6n the first School Board for London, and from I860;to; 1800 ,was senior, physioinn to the new hospital; for women in Euston Road. ' ■ : .v ; ; :' .;. . ■ \\"

!; Froni 1876 to 1898 Mrs.: Anderson was Dean' of the London Sohool of Medicine for Women... In 1696'5h0 was elected, president of tho East". Anglican branch of the British Medical ■Association- ■■•In 1871. .she married A 1 1 ,,- J. G. S. Anderson, managing director ol the Orient Linoi She still, continued herpublio work. She was a menjber of a committee of ladios deputed, by the British. Government to report on the concentration camps during the South African War. Since her .husbands death in 1907, Mrs. Anderson has spent, muoh : time-in Aldeburgh,. and she was -, elected t a member of' the council in IOOVi Last year she was'elected, to the Mayoral office, to which post She has new...been re-elected, . : ..-• .■■■■.-.!/ '.-;■:'