House of Lords

AF 's father, born Francis Aungier (Frank) Pakenham, was an Oxford academic whose subject was politics. He became the seventh Earl of Longford in 1961, but he had already been made Baron Pakenham by Clement Attlee

MF founded the Group for Rescinding the Act of Synod or GRAS at an evening meeting held in the Moses Room of the House of Lords , Westminster, and hosted by novelist Ruth Rendell

As a young man Byron lived a desultory and over-expensive life, though he was already deeply serious about his poetry. He took his seat in the House of Lords in March 1809, the same month...

ESG says that she brought a case for divorce against her husband (which, had she won it, would have marked an important precedent), but that it was turned down by the House of Lords ...

FJ was a Whig in politics and late in her life a reformist. She followed the slow gestation of the Reform Bill with close interest. When the House of Lords rejected the Bill in September...

As Elianor James, EJ published To the Lords Spiritual and Temporal (not her only broadsheet with this title) urging the House of Lords to pass an anti-Dissenter bill which forbade Occasional Conformity.

In Mrs. James's Thanks to the Lords and Commons for their great Sincerity to King George, EJ again marked an anniversary in national political life and in her career as its interpreter.

The volume contains thirty-three poems. Lament of the loyal Irish in 1869, England and Pauperism, and England and Secular Education speak to social and political concerns, while other poems explore the disappointments of...

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.

In 1863 Yelverton took his case to the highest possible authority, with an appeal to the House of Lords against the Dublin verdict.

In the copyright row provoked by unauthorised reprints by the Edinburgh publisher Alexander Donaldson , CM began by asking what practices would benefit literature, and concluded that publishers needed to be able to count on...

RM wrote in The Spectator criticising the House of Lords verdict which acquitted Lord de Clifford of manslaughter after he had killed someone in a road accident.

Viscountess Rhondda petitioned the king for a writ of summons to allow her to sit as a peeress in the House of Lords .

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 .

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 .