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Born in Swineshead, Bedfordshire, on the 17th June, 1909.
Married Arthur Marriott, a native of Leicester in 1929. She has one son and two daughters. Her younger daughter, Mrs. Vera Crompton, was the Lady Mayoress of Leicester during her Year of Office.
Her husband was elected a member of the City Council in 1953 and served as the representative for Castle Ward for many years.
Influenced by her husband~s Council activities, Councillor Mrs. Marriott was co-opted as a Member of the Public Assistance Committee in 1944.
In 1950 she was appointed a Magistrate for the City and later became a member of the Labour Women's Central Committee, of which she was Chairman for many years.
In 1959 she was elected to the City Council as a representative for the Abbey Ward.
Councillor Mrs. Marriott has devoted much of her service on the City Council to the care of the elderly and was elected Chairman of the Social Services Committee of the City Council until the transfer of the City's Social Services Department to the Leicestershire County Council in 1974.
She has served on most of the major Committees of the City Council and has held the Chairmanship of the Fire Brigade Committee and was Vice-Chairman of the Watch Committee.
Councillor Mrs. Marriott is the ViceChairman of the East Midlands Rent Tribunal, upon which she has served since 1946.
Deeply interested in education, Councillor Mrs. Marriott is a manager of the Abbey and Mowmacre Schools, Leicester.
Because of her long service in the welfare of the elderly, during her Year of Office she inaugurated an Appeal for the Leicester Organisation "Age Concern".
She was the High Bailiff of Leicester in the year 1973/74.
During her Year of Office she maintained the City's association with the 9th/12th Royal Lancers Regiment by visiting the Regiment at Detmold in Germany, and visited the 47th Light Regiment of the Royal Artillery on antiterrorist duties in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and the 16th Signal Regiment stationed in Leicester's twin City of Krefeld in Germany.
During her Year of Office she
featured prominently in the arrangements for the International Women's Year and was privileged to open the first house to be built by the City Council at Beaumont Leys, which is the largest enterprise ever to be undertaken by the City Council.
One of the most memorable events in her Year of Office was the visit to Leicester on the 11th May 1976 of General Matthew B. Ridgeway, the former Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Korea during the Korean War, and the Commander of the 82nd Airborne Division, stationed in Leicester in 1944 prior to the "D" Day landings in Normandy, France, in the same year, when a memorial stone in memory of the officers and men of the Division was unveiled by General Ridgeway in Victoria Park, Leicester.
Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, visited Leicester on the 13th April 1976.
The Haymarket Theatre Celebrated its Second Anniversary on the 28th November 1975.
On the 21st June 1975 the former Royal Leicestershire Regiment laid up the Regimental Colours in Leicester Cathedral, and a ceremony took place
at the Leicester War Memorial, when a Regimental Overthrow was unveiled.
