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CATHERINE SCOTT MORTON BEM

First woman Burgh Councillor of Airdrie in 1954, and a year later the town's first woman Baillie. In 1958 she was elected Provost of Airdrie.

Appointed Burgh Organiser of the WVS in 1940, Mrs Morton soon made the Airdrie Branch a model with a clothing store and first class canteen. In 1941 she was administrator of a Queen's Messenger Convoy in charge of 11 vehicles, each carrying its own kitchen equipment and for a period led a WVS team in the blitzed areas of London.

Soon after her election to the council in 1954 she became the Convenor of Health & Welfare, later serving for 3 years on the Western Regional Hospitals' Board and member of the Board of Management for Coatbridge, Airdrie and District Hospitals.

Mrs Morton was a member of the Ministry of Pensions Committee of the Lanarkshire Advisory Committee of National Insurance and of the Lanarkshire Health Service.