| 词条 | Ada Summers |
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| name = Ada Summers | image = Ada Jane Summers JP.jpg | image_size = | caption = Councillor Summers | alt = | birth_name = Ada Jane Broome | birth_date = {{birth year|1861}} | birth_place = Oldham, England | death_date = {{death year and age|1944|1861}} | death_place = | nationality = British | other_names = Ada Jane Summers, "The Lady Bountiful" | occupation = Philanthropist | known_for = First female Magistrate and Justice of the Peace in Britain; first female councillor and Mayor of Stalybridge | spouse = John Summers ({{abbr|d.|died}} 1910) }} Ada Jane Summers {{postnom|MBE|JP}} (née Broome; 1861–1944) was the first British woman to sit as a magistrate, and one of the first women in England to become a Justice of the Peace. She was also the first female councillor, mayor and freeman of Stalybridge near Manchester. She was also a philanthropist. Early and personal lifeShe was born in Oldham in 1861, where her father George Broome owned a textile mill.[1] In 1881, she married John Summers JP, of the John Summers & Sons steelworks.[1] His family owned the Globe Ironworks in Stalybridge. They had four children, Kathleen, John Broome, Gerald, and Ada. John died in 1903, aged nineteen, when he fell from a hotel window in St Ives, Cornwall.[2] Their son Gerald Summers (1885-1969) became a painter.[3] Her husband died in 1910.[1][6] Political and judicial careerSummers was elected as a Liberal Party councillor in Stalybridge in 1912.[1][4] She was then elected mayor in November 1919, and served until 1921.[1] As Mayor of Stalybridge, she was ex officio a Justice of the Peace, and was sworn in as the first female Justice of the Peace in England on 31 December 1919, one week after the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 came into force.[5] In October 1920 she was appointed a Justice of the Peace in the borough in her own right, again the first woman in Britain to do so.[1][1][6][4] She was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1918,[7] and became an honorary Freeman of the borough in 1939. PhilanthropySummers used the wealth inherited from her husband to pursue philanthropic aims, including funding a maternity and child welfare centre, and an employment centre in Stalybridge, the Ladies Work Society.[1] She set up a nurses' home in 1926.[6] At Christmas she would give presents to local children, and she paid for a Christmas tree.[6] She served as president of Stalybridge Mechanics Institute from 1926 until 1936. She founded a boys club in January 1929, which became known as "Mrs Summers Boy's Club". She was president of the Stalybridge branch of the British and Foreign Bible Society. She was also involved with and the Police Court Mission.[1] She was among the first contributors to the Young Men's Christian Association National War Service Fund when she donated £100 in 1939.[2] After her death, she was described (without irony) as "Lady Bountiful".[1][6] LegacySummers died in 1944. There is a blue plaque about her at Stalybridge Civic Hall.[6][8] {{Portal bar|Biography|Law|Politics|United Kingdom}}References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 {{cite web|url=http://www.tameside.gov.uk/blueplaque/adasummers|title=A Tribute to Ada Jane Summers, MBE, JP (1861–1944)|accessdate=19 March 2016|publisher=Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council}} {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Summers, Ada}}2. ^1 {{Cite web|url=https://doi.org/10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.111915|title=Summers [née Broome], Ada Jane|last=Logan|first=Anne|date=8 November 2018|website=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=23 November 2018}} 3. ^Gerald Summers, 1886-1969, Suffolk Painters 4. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://first100years.org.uk/ada-summers/|title=Ada Summers|accessdate=19 March 2016|publisher=First 100 Years}} 5. ^History of the Magistracy, 1361 to 2011, p.27 6. ^1 2 3 4 5 {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/?id=m30ACwAAQBAJ&pg=PA62&lpg=PA62&dq=Ada+Summers#v=onepage&q=Ada%20Summers&f=false|title=The Justice Women: The Female Presence in the Criminal Justice System 1800–1970|author=Stephen Wade|page=62|publisher=Pen and Sword|year=2015|accessdate=2016-03-25|isbn=9781473843653}} 7. ^[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30730/supplement/6742 The London Gazette, Supplement 30730, Page 6742], 4 June 1918 8. ^http://openplaques.org/people/5696 9 : 1861 births|1944 deaths|English justices of the peace|English philanthropists|Mayors of places in Greater Manchester|Members of the Order of the British Empire|People from Oldham|English women philanthropists|English women judges |
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