Education
She attended Leeds University on scholarship.
She attended Leeds University on scholarship.
She was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her efforts. The couple had two sons. The family relocated to Liverpool after Stanley Wormald took up employment at the Liverpool Institute.
She stood in 1953 as a Labour candidate for Kensington, Liverpool.
She served on the council until 1968, chairing the Education Committee from 1955-1961, and from 1963-1967, when she became the second woman ever to be named as Lord Mayor of Liverpool. She died at Bangor, Gwynedd on 23 February 1993, aged 91.
The Ethel Wormald College, a day school which allows older students to train as teachers without spending extra time at residential colleges.
She was involved the Personal Aid Society and the Socialist Educational Association.
She became a member of the Liverpool Regional Hospital Board and, while a member, fought to create a centre for mentally ill patients who were release from local hospitals without options.