Janet Stancomb-Wills

Dame Janet Stancomb Graham Stancomb-Wills DBE PPRWA (25 January 1854 – 22 August 1932) was the first woman mayor of Ramsgate in Kent, an office which she held from 1923–24, and she was also the first person to receive, in 1922, the Freedom of the Town. She was elected President of the Royal West of England Academy (RWA) in 1911,[1] decades before any other British Academy even admitted women as full members, and also became President of the School of Architecture at Bristol in 1921. In 1927, she was appointed Justice of the Peace for Kent.[2] She died on 22 August 1932 at East Court, Ramsgate, Kent, aged 78.[3][4]

  1. ^ Alice Strang (26 November 2020). "Pioneering women at the Royal Scottish Academy". Art UK. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
  2. ^ Ramsgate Town website, Dame Janet Stancomb-Wills
  3. ^ Profile, socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu; accessed 10 June 2015.
  4. ^ Profile, ghgraham.org; accessed 10 June 2015.