Double first for sex-change mayor and her mayoress

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For 800 years a colourful roll-call of men and women has stepped forward to set precedents in the honourable post of the Mayor of Cambridge.
Never before has there been a woman who was born a man.

John Mortlock, an artful 18th century merchant gave the city its first bank, while the eminent Eva Hartree became the first woman mayor in 1924.

However, when Jenny Bailey dons the red mayoral robes at a ceremony in the Guildhall this morning, not only will Cambridge have its 801st first citizen, but Britain will have its first transgender mayor. <snip>

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1832277.ece

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