#Margaret Montgomery Pirrie

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This lady here is an absolute badass. She was the wife of Lord William Perrie, Chairman of the Harland & Wolff shipyards. *She was the first female Justice of the Peace in Belfast, *She fundraised 200,000 pounds for the building and running of a 300 bed hospital and later financed the hospitals radium cancer treatments.

*Against what was the norm of the time, she was very involved in her husbands work, joining him on business trips and spending time at the shipyard, getting to know the managers and workers, and worked evenings with her husband on financial planning and engineering designs.

Viscountess Margaret Montgomery Carlisle Pirrie, Lady Mayoress of Belfast (1896–1897) Hubert von Herkomer (1849–1914) Belfast City Hall