Plans have been lodged for a blue plaque to commemorate an Oldham suffragist.

An application has been submitted by Oldham council for the installation of the sign to commemorate Marjory Lees at the Werneth Park Community Centre on Frederick Street.

It would be installed next to the existing plaque on the Grade II-listed building which honours her mother, politician and activist Dame Sarah Lees.

The proposed wording would read: “The home of Marjory Lees 1878 – 1970. Suffragist, philanthropist, social welfare activist. Donated this house and park to the borough, 1936.”

Marjory Lees was born in Oldham, Greater Manchester in 1878, and like her mother, became active in local politics and the wider women’s suffrage movement.

She made charitable donations to the local community, began a career as a poor law guardian and became president of the Oldham Women’s Suffrage Society.

Marjory also took part in the Suffrage Pilgrimage in 1913, travelling from Oldham to London, in which  50,000 suffragists and supporters of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) converged on Hyde Park for a rally calling for votes for women.

This was the culmination of a five-week, nationwide Women’s Suffrage Pilgrimage.

In 1919, she was elected to Oldham Council following her mother’s resignation from the same seat, serving on the council until she stepped down in 1934.

Sarah Lees was an English Liberal politician, activist, and philanthropist who was the first female councillor elected in Lancashire in 1907, and the first female Mayor of Oldham in 1910, only the second woman in England to hold such a position.

The Dame Sarah Lees Memorial erected in Werneth Park in 1937, was designed and made by the local artist and sculptor Williams Hargreaves Whitehead.

Marjory donated Werneth Park, her family home, to the people of Oldham in 1936 after the death of her mother, which forms the present public Werneth Park.

The design and access statement on behalf of the council states: “The site has an existing plaque to Sarah Lees. It is appropriate to also now acknowledge the achievements of her daughter, Marjory. The building and surrounding parkland were a gift to Oldham from Marjory Lees.

“The design of the plaque will follow the format of the existing Sarah Lees plaque. This will maintain the feel of the building and add an additional story for the public to access.”