School boards in England and Wales

c. 75) permitted the creation of school boards in areas where they were needed.

[1] Each board could: Members were directly elected, not appointed by borough councils or parish vestries.

Unusually for the time, women were eligible to win election to school boards.

When the first elections were held, in 1870, nine women were elected across the country: Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Emily Davies in London, Anne Ashworth and Caroline Shum in Bath, Catherine Ricketts in Brighton, Lydia Becker in Manchester, Marian Huth in Huddersfield, Eleanor Smith in Oxford, and Jennetta Temple in Exeter.

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