Dame Annie Maud Burnett DBE JP (27 February 1863 — 17 November 1950) was a local English politician who served as the first female mayor of Tynemouth.
[3] In 1902, Burnett founded a Tynemouth branch of the Women's Local Government Society, standing for election to the municipal council in 1909.
Although defeated, she was returned the next year with the support of the Liberal Society, becoming the first woman in the North of England to sit as a municipal councillor.
From 1928 to 1930 she served a pair of two-year terms as Mayor of Tynemouth, and was the first woman elected to that position.
[3] A portrait of her attributed to John William Gilroy is in the ownership of North Tyneside Council [1] She retired from politics in 1934, and died at home on 17 November 1950, aged 87.