Mary Barbour was a Scottish political activist, local councillor, bailie and magistrate.
22 Facts About Mary Barbour
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Mary Barbour was born on 20 February 1875 at 37 New Street, Kilbarchan to Jean and James Rough, a handloom carpet weaver.
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In 1887, the family moved to the village of Elderslie and Mary Barbour worked as a thread twister, eventually becoming a carpet printer.
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On 28 August 1896, Mary Rough married an engineer, David Barbour, at Wallace Place, Elderslie.
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In 1933, Mary Barbour moved to a council house at 34 Cromdale Street in Drumoyne, Glasgow, where she lived until her death.
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One year after she was widowed, Mary Barbour died at age 83 in the Southern General Hospital, Glasgow.
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Mary Barbour's funeral was held at Craigton Crematorium in Cardonald, near Govan.
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Mary Barbour first became politically active as a member of the Kinning Park Co-operative Guild.
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Mary Barbour was a founder of the Women's Peace Crusade at the "Great Women's Peace Conference" in June 1916, with Helen Crawfurd and Agnes Dollan.
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In 1920, Mary Barbour stood as the Labour candidate for Fairfield ward in Govan, and was elected to Glasgow Town Council, becoming one of the city's first woman councillors.
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Mary Barbour was appointed as one of the first woman magistrates in Glasgow.
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Mary Barbour became a Justice of the Peace for the City of Glasgow in January 1928.
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From 1925, Mary Barbour was Chair of the Glasgow Women's Welfare and Advisory Clinic, and had worked with the Glasgow Corporation's specialist in child and female healthcare, Dr Nora Wattie, to establish the clinic, staffed by female nurses and doctors.
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Mary Barbour gave a speech at the opening of the clinic in August 1926, in a storefront at 51 Govan Road, which was the first site offering advice on birth control in Scotland.
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In November 1926, Mary Barbour attended the opening of the West Govan Child Welfare Clinic.
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Mary Barbour is name-checked in Scottish Women's Power Anthem 'Girl ' by Sharon Martin.
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Mary Barbour was the subject of one of the Not Forgotten series of documentaries on Channel Four in 2007.
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In 2012 the BBC Radio 4 programme Woman's Hour ran a profile about Mary Barbour following the writing of a poem about her by Christine Finn for an exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland.
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The play is divided into eleven sections, and although Mrs Mary Barbour is a recurring presence in the play, she only appears as a character in the penultimate section where she makes a speech set during the period of the rent strike.
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Mary Barbour was the inspiration behind the character of Agnes Calder in J David Simons' novel The Liberation of Celia Kahn.
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The "bumper birthday party" as the newspaper styled it, was organised by the Govan Women's Housing Association, of which Mary Barbour was the founder and Honorary President.
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The cairn was installed in New St, where Mary Barbour was born, and was unveiled on 21 November 2015 by the Provost of Renfrewshire, Anne Hall, in the presence of Mary Barbour's descendants.