Fanny Deakin (1883 – 1968) was an English politician who campaigned for better nourishment of young children and maternity care for mothers.
Along with unemployed miners, she met at Downing Street Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald and as a result of this meeting local councils began to give free milk to pregnant mothers and children up to the age of five.
One of her friends was found guilty of inciting a riot and as a result of her evidence in providing an alibi she was charged with perjury and spent nine months in prison.
In 1934, she became a County Councillor in the recently merged Newcastle-under-Lyme Council, continuing her advocacy of child and maternal welfare issues through a number of different committees.
Her advocacy of mother and child welfare issues was recognised when Fanny Deakin Maternity Home was opened in 1947 in Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough.