Conservative Party

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Occupation Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton
Bulwer served as an independent radical Member of Parliament, who in 1832 reformed himself out of a seat.
Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.
Following this (the First Reform Bill) he was immediately re-elected, and served until 1841. His initiatives during...
Occupation Elizabeth Jane Howard
In 1943 EJH got a steadier job than she had yet had, as continuity announcer with the BBC . In this job she read news bulletins, announced concerts, selected and played records. Later, while visiting...
politics Beatrice Webb
BW was appointed (in one of the last acts of Arthur Balfour 's Conservative government) to a Royal Commission on the Poor Law.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
politics Emmeline Pankhurst
EP sought nomination as the Conservative candidate for Whitechapel and St George's in the East End of London, a poor constituency, and a hard one for a Conservative candidate to win. Her move to...
politics Frances Power Cobbe
FPC continued to involve herself in the anti-vivisection and suffrage movements after her move to Wales. When the Conservative government came into power in 1886 she pressed for female enfranchisement through party connections. In 1888...
politics Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda
The group's agenda was to obtain legislative improvements in child-assault laws, the position of unmarried mothers, equality of both parents in guardianship rights, equal pay for teachers, equal civic service opportunities for women and men...
politics Benjamin Disraeli
As a Conservative MP, BD took a marked interest in the Chartist movement and supported the Corn Laws. He was a socially reforming and a markedly imperialist Prime Minister.
politics Emily Faithfull
EF joined the South Manchester Primrose Habitation , a Manchester association connected with the Primrose League , an organization which promoted Conservative Party principles.
Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany.
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Walker, Linda. “Party Political Women: A Comparative Study of Liberal Women and the Primrose League, 1890-1914”. Equal or Different: Women’s Politics 1800-1914, edited by Jane Rendall, Basil Blackwell, pp. 165-91.
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politics Kate Parry Frye
In the postwar general election the former radical KPF supported the Conservatives. After the Labour victory she blamed such hardships as the introduction of bread rationing on this awful government; she also canvassed for...
politics Robert Southey
Early in life he embraced the egalitarian principles of the French Revolution and sought with his friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge to raise money for political ventures through writing. He later rejected his youthful idealism and...
politics Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton
Bulwer-Lytton's jump from radical sympathies to the Tory party, coupled with his extravagant life and dandyism, made him a flamboyant and controversial figure.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Author summary Evelyn Waugh
EW was a twentieth-century novelist whose startling black humour goes together with devastating satire and a low estimate of unredeemed human nature (whether he is fictionalizing the failings of other people or of himself). He...
Author summary Robert Southey
Robert Southey was a Romantic poet, one of the Lake Poets with Wordsworth and Coleridge . In addition to epics, ballads, and other verse, he penned several plays and contributed regularly to the ToryQuarterly...
Reception Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde
Following the death of her husband , JFLW wrote to Sir Thomas Larcom , hoping he could help secure her a government pension.
Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray.
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In his reply, Larcom explained that only the Prime Minister could...
Textual Features Emily Eden
EE 's preface explains that she first set this novel in what was then the present day: the pre-Reform-Bill, pre-railway era. She did not wish to update it in revising, so it is now set...

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25 July 1886: Following the general election of this month,...

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25 July 1886

Following the general election of this month, the Marquess of Salisbury (Conservative ) formed the British government for a second time.

January 1910: A general election was fought in Britain...

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January 1910

A general election was fought in Britain on the issue of Lloyd George 's people's budget of the previous year: the combined Conservative and [Ulster] Unionist Parties came in only two votes behind the Liberals

20 December 1910: A general election resulted in a tie between...

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20 December 1910

A general election resulted in a tie between the Liberal and Tory parties.

11 April 1912: Asquith brought forward the Liberal party's...

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11 April 1912

Asquith brought forward the Liberal party 's third Home Rule Bill for Ireland (since 1886) in return for election support from John Redmond of the Irish Party .
“Living Heritage. Parliament and Ireland. Third Home Rule Bill”. www. parliament.uk.

14 December 1918: The post-war general election (sometimes...

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14 December 1918

The post-war general election (sometimes called the coupon election) was the first in which some British women (those over thirty with a property qualification of their own or their husband's) voted.

September 1920: Home and Politics, a Conservative Party women's...

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September 1920

Home and Politics, a Conservative Party women's paper, began publication in London.

23 October 1922: Andrew Bonar Law was chosen leader of the...

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23 October 1922

Andrew Bonar Law was chosen leader of the British Conservative Party following the resignation of Lloyd George .

15 November 1922: In the British general election the Conservative...

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15 November 1922

In the British general election the Conservative Party , under its recently-elected leader Bonar Law , won a majority of 77, ending David Lloyd George 's Liberal -Conservative coalition.

22 May 1923: Stanley Baldwin (Conservative) became Prime...

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22 May 1923

Stanley Baldwin (Conservative ) became Prime Minister following Bonar Law 's resignation on grounds of ill health.

6 December 1923: A general election was held in Britain....

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6 December 1923

A general election was held in Britain.

Late October 1924: A letter inciting Britons to revolution,...

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Late October 1924

A letter inciting Britons to revolution, purportedly written by Grigori Evseyevich Zinoviev and sent from the Third International to the small British Communist Party , was obtained by and published in the British press.

4 November 1924: Stanley Baldwin (Conservative) formed the...

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4 November 1924

Stanley Baldwin (Conservative ) formed the government in the UK for a second time following the general election of 29 October, succeeding to Labour Party leader James Ramsay MacDonald .

30 May 1929: Labour came in twenty-six votes ahead of...

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30 May 1929

Labour came in twenty-six votes ahead of the Conservatives in the first general election with full women's suffrage: the prospect of voting by women under thirty brought the demeaning nickname of the Flapper Election....

5 June 1929: James Ramsay MacDonald, Labour leader, formed...

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5 June 1929

James Ramsay MacDonald , Labour leader, formed a minority government in the UK for the second time, following the first general election with full women's suffrage.

27 October 1931: Irene Ward (later Dame Irene) was elected...

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27 October 1931

Irene Ward (later Dame Irene) was elected for the Conservatives to the British Parliament , where she remained for thirty-eight of the next forty-two years, making her the longest-serving woman MP.

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