Dame Mabel Crout DBE (6 January 1890 – 8 February 1984) was a British politician, who served on the London County Council.
Born in Plumstead, Crout joined the Labour Party in 1906.
She was appointed as assistant secretary to the Woolwich Labour Party in 1912, the first woman to hold a paid post in the local party, and in 1920 she became the first woman to become a magistrate in Woolwich.
In 1965, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
[2] Crout finally retired in 1971, moving to Tunbridge Wells, where she died in 1984 at the age of 94.