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Margaret Ashton was an English suffragist local politician pacifist and philanthropist the first woman City Councillor for Manchester. Margaret Ashton was the first woman to run for election to Manchester City Council and in 1908 became the first woman City Councillor when she was elected Councillor for Withington. With the outbreak of the first world war in 1914 Ashton was amongst the internationalist minority who split from the NUWSS and the suffragette movement.
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