Mary Lobo

Mary Lobo (born in 1922 or 1923) was a prominent social worker, clubwoman and women's rights activist in Singapore.

She served on the committee which organised a concert for the Gandhi Memorial Fund and assisted at both a local orphanage and the Social Welfare Department feeding centre.

[13][14] In the same year, she was appointed a delegate to the International Alliance of Women's golden jubilee conference, which was held in Colombo.

[19] Several prominent local women, including politician Phyllis Eu Cheng Li and the council's general secretary Shirin Fozdar, strongly criticised the statement.

[20] In response to the statement, Fozdar sent a letter containing a cutting of a report by The Straits Times on the then-69-times-married Tengku Mohammed Ariffin, a Singaporean Malay businessman and distant relative of the Sultan of Perak, to the conference's organiser.

[22] Later that month, it was reported that the issue had been resolved as Lobo had clarified that she had been referring to "political rights", and that the statement had been made at an informal tea party, not at the conference itself.

[23] In 1958, she was the official Singaporean delegate to the United Nations seminar on "Increase Participation of Asian Women in Public Life.

[27] In the same year, she also served the chairman of the Grail Movement, which was formed to raise funds for a centre for the training of social workers.