Mary Rose Tuitt

In 1978, she again for office but lost to Joseph Tailor in a very close bid for reelection.

In 1970, Tuitt ran as a candidate for the Progressive Democratic Party in the Southern district and was elected to the Legislative Council of Montserrat, only the second woman to do so. In that same year, she was named Minister responsible for Education and Health and Welfare, thus becoming the "first lady Minister of Government." According to Fergus, her accomplishments while in office, were many.

She resigned in 1968 after being passed over for the position of inspector of schools. Tuitt was transferred to the Ministry of Social Services but resigned that position after she realized it was a dead-end position. For a short time, she managed the historic Coconut Hill Hotel on the island.

When she returned to Montserrat after her studies, she was named head teacher at St. Patrick's school. She studied for an additional year at the University of Oxford Institute of Education. In 1958, she married Adolphus Tuitt.

The daughter of Edgar Peters and Sarah Ryan (née Dorsett), she was born Mary Rose Peters in Kinsale, Montserrat. She studied at the Erdiston Teachers' Training College in Barbados from 1953 to 1955.

Tuitt was also an accomplished netball player who began playing while in secondary school and joined the national team in 1950. She was captain of the Montserrat team in 1959, and in 1963, she was its coach and manager. She also served as president of the Montserrat Netball Association and the West Indies Netball Board.

Mary Rose Tuitt (December 25, 1930 – 2005) was an educator and politician from the island of Montserrat, a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean. She was the first woman to serve as a government minister in that country.