Born Julia Sullivan in Limehouse, married John Scurr in 1900. Politically active, campaigning for working women, the unemployed, women's suffrage. 1919 elected to Poplar Borough Council and was imprisoned during the 1921 rates protest. Mayor of Poplar 1923-4.
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Julia Scurr
Scurr's date of birth is here given as 1873, while the ODNB, for example, giv...
The mural refers to "30 councillors" but actually names only 29. The count o...
Founded by Elizabeth Jesser Reid as the Ladies College, the first higher educ...
Journalist and poet. Son of the Marquess of Queensbury and lover of Oscar Wil...
Secretary of Married Women’s Property Committee, Secularist and sexual radica...
