About Marjorie Brown
Lived 1919 – 2015 (aged 95–96). Marjorie Brown was a British politician.
Marjorie Alice Brown CBE (25 May 1919 – 8 January 2015) was Lord Mayor of Birmingham in 1973–74. Brown was the first woman to be Lord Mayor of Birmingham.
Early life Marjorie Alice Poole was born in 1919, the daughter of William and Beatrice Brown.
Councillor and Lord Mayor Brown was elected as a Labour councillor to Birmingham City Council in 1954 for Small Heath Ward, remaining a councillor until 1986. She was Lord Mayor in 1973–74.
She was awarded the CBE in 1977.
Personal life Brown married Marwood Eric Brown in 1940; they had two daughters, Jackie and Carol. She died in 2015, aged 95.
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British politician and first woman Lord Mayor of Birmingham
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Marjorie Brown was born in 1919.
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