About Mary Stott
Lived 1907 – 2002 (aged 95). Mary Stott was a British journalist.
Mary Stott (born Charlotte Mary Waddington) (18 July 1907 – 16 September 2002) was a British feminist and journalist. She was editor of The Guardian newspaper's women's page between 1957 and 1972.
Charlotte Mary Waddington was born in Leicester, England, the only daughter and third child of Robert Guy Waddington and his wife, born Amalie Bates. Robert and Amalie Waddington were both journalists. In 1937, she married Ken Stott, who was a journalist for the News Chronicle.
In November 2005, she was posthumously included (one of just five women) in the Press Gazettes 40-strong "gallery" of most influential British journalists.
Archives Papers of Charlotte Mary Stott are held at The Women's Library at the Library of the London School of Economics, ref 7CMS
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Who was Mary Stott?
British journalist
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Mary Stott was born on 18 July 1907 in Leicester.
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Mary Stott died on 16 September 2002 in Blackheath.
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Mary Stott was a journalist.
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Mary Stott was British.
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