Nellie Beer, OBE, JP (née Robinson; 22 April 1900 – 17 September 1988), was a Conservative member of Manchester City Council from 1937 to 1972.
[2] Her father died when she was three, and at 14 she worked in a blouse factory for 4 shillings a week.
[3] She went to night school and became a dress maker in a large Manchester store.
In 1927 she married Robert Beer to whom she bore a daughter.
In June 1957 she was appointed an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours.