Mary Jane Bridges-Adams (née Daltry; 19 October 1854[1] – 14 January 1939) was a British educationalist, socialist, and activist.
Bridges-Adams was born at Maesycwmmer, Bedwas, Monmouthshire, south Wales,[1] the daughter of a Welsh engine-fitter William and his wife Margaret.
[2] She failed to be elected, but was successful three years later, and was re-elected in 1900 as the sole Independent Labour Party candidate, with an increased majority,[2] remaining a member of the board until its abolition.
[4] She supported adult education for workers through the Plebs League and the Central Labour College, and founded the Working Women's Movement.
Though this may have conflicted with her own views about education, sending her son to a fee-paying boarding school was likely the only way she could have continued her activism as a single-parent.