Mrs Laura McClure (neé Ellicott) (1913-1996)
She was the first woman councillor for Friary Ward, and, at the time, the youngest councillor then elected. Like her mother, Laura Ellicott, she was a Conservative, and prominent in the Young Conservatives in Plymouth, and was mentored by Nancy Astor. When first selected as a candidate for the ward in 1947, in her campaigning, she highlighted that she was outraged that there were no women in the Conservative interest on the Council and far too few women councillors in general, pointing out that Labour had put up no women for election/re-election in the 1947 municipal elections. She argued that the woman’s voice was needed if Plymouth’s rebuilding was to be successful in the ways it needed to be, to overcome the ‘nitwits’ currently on the Council. She stood again in 1949 and 1950,