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| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| politics | Frances Power Cobbe | The next year she began to pursue legislation personally, asking Frederick Elliot
to draft a bill for her and consulting influential connections. Introduced into the House of Lords
, her bill was countered in the... |
| politics | Marina Warner | In a 1992 interview, MW
stated that she used to be a Republican, but that in middle age she is becoming less radical, with a larger share of royalist sympathies. She noted that there is... |
| politics | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | Viscountess Rhondda
petitioned the king for a writ of summons to allow her to sit as a peeress in the House of Lords
. |
| politics | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | The Committee of Privileges
ruled that on the basis of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919, Viscountess Rhondda
should be allowed to sit as a peeress in the House of Lords
. Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Company. 32: 1040 Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press. 82-3 Beddoe, Deirdre. Back to Home and Duty: Women Between the Wars, 1918-1939. Pandora. 143 |
| politics | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | The parliamentary Committee of Privileges
, under the directorship of Lord Birkenhead
, reversed its earlier decision and refused Viscountess Rhondda
the right to sit as a peeress in the House of Lords
. Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press. 85-6 |
| politics | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | After receiving her title, MHVR
was still barred from attending proceedings of the House of Lords
. When the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act was passed in 1919, there was still no progress to admit into... |
| politics | Mary Delany | A group of upper-class Opposition women caused a politically-angled disturbance at the House of Lords
: they included Mary Pendarves (later MD
). Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press. 2: 135-7 |
| politics | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | This prompted Lady Rhondda to call the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act a leaky saucepan. Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press. 87 Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press. 87 |
| politics | Winifred Maxwell, Countess of Nithsdale | WMCN
had little hope she could secure a pardon for a Catholic rebel, but nevertheless she tried. She drummed up support, appeared regularly in the gallery at the House of Lords
, organized a petition... |
| politics | Caroline Norton | Thomas Noon Talfourd
gave notice early in 1837 of a House of Commons
motion on this subject, and the Bill was printed. But immediately after this CN
's husband relented and allowed her to see... |
| Other Life Event | Dorothea Du Bois | The deaths of both her parents did not put an end to the family's internecine strife. In April 1771, the House of Lords
judged her mother's marriage certificate to be a forgery, though the evidence... |
| Other Life Event | Maria Theresa Longworth | The House of Lords
, the highest court of appeal, found in favour of William Charles Yelverton
in declaring that his marriage to MTL
was not legally valid. Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press. Erickson, Arvel B., and John R. McCarthy. “The Yelverton Case: Civil Legislation and Marriage”. Victorian Studies, Vol. 14 , pp. 275-91. 283 |
| Other Life Event | Maria Theresa Longworth | In 1863 Yelverton
took his case to the highest possible authority, with an appeal to the House of Lords
against the Dublin verdict. |
| Other Life Event | E. Arnot Robertson | |
| Occupation | Alfred Tennyson | Having twice refused a title, AT
accepted, at the urging of Queen Victoria
, a baronetcy and seat in the House of Lords
, becoming the first English writer to be raised to the peerage. Ricks, Christopher. Tennyson. Macmillan. 288 |
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