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She was born as Enid Anne Brackenbury at Shirebrook, Nottinghamshire, the daughter of a coal merchant.
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Enid Hattersley
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She was a Labour Party activist from an early age, getting her membership card at the age of 14. When she was 27, Father Frederick Hattersley (known as Roy, his second name), a Roman Catholic priest, possibly from a recusant family, came to order the winter"s coal for his presbytery. They fell in love, notwithstanding his clerical vocation.
She spent some two decades on Sheffield"s Libraries and Arts Committee (as Chair from 1968 to 1980).
She also served four years on South Yorkshire County Council. She also was chairperson of governing Sheffield"s first comprehensive school.
She oversaw the creation of the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield. In 1979, as chairman of the Yorkshire Museums Service, she helped persuade the fiscally struggling nearby Kirklees council not to sell off artwork by Francis Bacon and Henry Moore.In 1981, she was installed as Lord Mayor of Sheffield.
She would help rally the city when the HMS Sheffield sank during the 1982 and she led memorials and fund-raising for the families of those killed and wounded.
The Ministry of Defence set up in response its own South Atlantic Fund. She was credited by The Telegraph for her contributions to Sheffield, specifically by helping "turn the city from one of England"s grimiest cities into a modern industrial centre …as chairman of the Libraries and Arts Committee, she developed the city"s museums and art galleries to the point where they gained an international reputation".
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Political Party
Labour Party