Maud Amy Margaret White (née Wall)
Mayor of Oxford 1942/3
Mrs Maud Amy Margaret White (née Wall) (1890–1959) was a Chief Officer in the WRNS during the 1914–1918 war, and was awarded an MBE (Military Division) in 1919. After the war she entered the Liverpool School of Architecture, and became an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1925. She was the first woman architect to be employed by London County Council.
In 1928 she married Captain John White of Temple Cowley in the Holborn Registration District, and came to Oxford. She was elected to the City Council as a Conservative in 1934 (the first women ever to represent Cowley & Iffley Ward), and retained her seat in 1937. In 1939 she was temporarily recalled to the WRNS, but returned to Oxford in June 1940 for family reasons and resumed her seat on the council.
In 1942 Mrs Maud White was elected Mayor of Oxford (for 1942/3).
She lost her seat after moving over from the Conservative to the Labour Party, but was later returned for the same ward as a Labour councillor.
Maud White lived at Rick House, Church Way, Iffley. She retired from the council through ill health in October 1955, and died in a nursing home at the age of 68 on 25 May 1959.
See also:
- Oxford Times, 29 May 1959, p. 7 (obituary)