Private members' club in Newcastle elects first ever female chairman

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    Chronicle Live, 21 JUN 2017. "....One of the world’s oldest private members’ clubs based in Newcastle has elected a female chairman for the first time. The Northern Counties Club has elected Lucy Winskell, Pro Vice-Chancellor of Northumbria University , to succeed previous chairman Chris Robson, managing partner at Ryecroft Glenton, after the end of his five-year term....The club, which was founded in 1829 and has been at the heart of Newcastle’s business community ever since, admitted Mrs Winskell as its first female member after a change of rules permitted this in 1999. At that time...."
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    Link: https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/business/business-news/private-members-club-newcastle-elects-13219650
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