THE mayor of Bridport wants to find out more about the first woman elected to the town council - and is calling on the public for help. To mark International Women’s Day which was held on March 8, Councillor Ian Bark has been learning about Agnes Suttill - the first woman to be elected as a councillor in Bridport. She was also one of the first councillors in England. Now there are moves to mark her achievements in some way – 100 years on from when she was first elected. Cllr Bark has been assisted in his research by Cllr Karen Hunt - who is a historian, chairman of Bridport Museum Trust and a founding member of Bridport Women’s History Group. It was Cllr Hunt who discovered that in 1921 Mrs Suttill became one of the country’s first elected women councillors.