Agnes Lois Bulley (1901–1995) was a British county councillor, philanthropist and political activist from Cheshire, England.
[1] Her father had become wealthy within his family's cotton brokerage business and later became a keen plant collector and started Bees Ltd seed company.
[2] She was born on 2 December 1901 at Mickwell Brow, a house built for her father near the village of Ness near the market town of Neston on the Wirral Peninsula, Cheshire.
[1] After initially being educated at home by French and German governesses,[3] she was sent to the co-educational Bedales School, Hampshire and then trained as a nurse and midwife at Queen Mary Maternity Hospital in Hampstead, qualifying in 1925.
Although she was born into wealth, she became committed to the socialist principles of her parents and devoted much of her life to philanthropy and political activity through local government.
In the same year she bought her brother's share of the family home and donated it and an endowment of £75,000 to the University of Liverpool which has become Ness Botanic Gardens.
[8] In later life she was able to enjoy the theatres, concerts and galleries and particularly ballet in London where she, and a friend Mrs Nancy Kershaw, warden of the Heswall Meeting House, had a small flat.
The proposals on which she stood included improved access to health care at the local Clatterbridge Hospital, welfare benefits through employing local men to construct roads and bridges and also disregarding war pensions and free school meals in the Means Test for benefits.
[3][1] Her council roles included acting as vice-chair and Hon Secretary for the Committee of Chester and District Blind Welfare Society.