Mabel Tylecote

Dr Dame Mabel Tylecote, DBE (née Phythian; 4 February 1896 – 31 January 1987) was a British Labour Party politician, activist, humanitarian, and educationist from Manchester, England.

Born to John Ernest Phythian and Ada Crompton Prichard in Manchester, her father was a solicitor, local politician and a lay preacher, with a great interest in the arts and education. She 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.

Tylecote served as a Manchester City Councillor, and stood as a Labour Parliamentary candidate on several occasions. In later years, her husband, Dr. Frank Edward Tylecote, a physician and early researcher into the link between smoking and lung cancer, also served as a City Councillor as a Conservative.

The Mabel Tylecote Building is a Manchester Metropolitan University building on the University's All Saints Campus. It houses teaching and learning space for the Department of Languages and the MMU School of Theatre as well as academic and administrative staff offices. This includes the Capitol Theatre, which is the performance space for MMU theatre and acting students. The Theatre is used for public theatrical productions as well as theatrical teaching and learning. The Mabel Tylecote building is also the location of the Manchester Philosophy Society offices, the Green Room Refectory, and an open-air walk-through art gallery.

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