Beatrice Bolam MBE (née Patterson; August 1919[1] – 2 January 2013) was an English politician and councillor for Jarrow, County Durham.
Bolam was born and raised in Jarrow, the eldest of four children of a boilermaker who worked for Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company.
Educated at Jarrow Grammar School, she then attended Skerry's College in Newcastle until 1937, training for a career in the civil service.
In 1953, she was elected to serve as the representative for Jarrow on Durham County Council, defeating a Labour Party member to take the role.
[2] That same year, she founded the Jarrow branch of the Young Conservatives and assisted Stanley Holmes (later Baron Dovercourt) in the general election.