Irene Faulkner, Educator, Councillor, Magistrate
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Irene Faulkner [1918 – 2010], of South Bank, York, trained as a nursery teacher and later worked in further education. A pioneer in the world of education, in the early 1950, when there was no nursery education available, in order to help working mothers with very small children, she set up a nursery school at […]