Mabel Tylecote

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Dame Dr. Mabel Tylecote, née Phythian, DBE (1896 - 1987) was a British Labour Party politician, activist and adult educationist from Manchester, England.

Born on 4 February 1896 to John Ernest Phythian and Ada Prichard Phythian, née Crompton, her father was a Manchester solicitor and a lay preacher, with a great interest in the arts and education. Mabel Phythian grew up in a background of concern with adult education, with cultural opportunities for the population at large, and with voluntary work in the community, all of them major factors in her own life and career.

Dr. Mabel Tylecote was on the (Manchester) Committee of the Free German League of Culture in Great Britain, founded by published by German and Austrian refugee organisations and supportive British groups, including Albert Einstein, the artist Oskar Kokoschka, writer Thomas Mann and actress Sybil Thorndike. The League had its own publishing company,Inside Nazi Germany, and a major artist, John Heartfield, producing most of its illustrative material.

[edit] Mabel Tylecote Building

The Mabel Tylecote Office, in the Mabel Tylecote Building, located at Manchester Metropolitan University, provides administrative support for the schools' Acting programme.

[edit] Personal papers

Her personal papers are located at the John Rylands University Library of Manchester. They comprise her career in the Labour Party, Manchester local politics, and adult education. The collection comprises: general correspondence, both personal and official; letters of congratulation and condolence; files relating to particular topics such as adult education, by-elections and general elections, her career in Manchester politics and Mechanics' Institutes; Phythian family correspondence; letters to Lucile Keck of Chicago, from Tylecote and others; Sidebottom family correspondence, including earlier letters from A. J. Balfour (1888, 1893), John Bright (1848, 1864) and Richard Cobden (1864); personal diaries; and photograph albums. There is also a collection of 67 watercolours and drawings of scenes from the First World War by her brother, Wilfrid Phythian.