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Liberal Party

Connections

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Friends, Associates	Virginia Woolf	Bloomsbury came to designate a new sensibility in philosophy, literature, art, and politics, and its growth has been linked with the crucial break between the Edwardians and the Georgians, the point when human character...
Family and Intimate relationships	Lady Cynthia Asquith	Lady Cynthia Charteris married Herbert Asquith , Beb, the second son of Herbert Henry Asquith and Helen Asquith . Herbert Henry Asquith (later first Earl of Oxford and Asquith), 1852-1928, was at this time...
Family and Intimate relationships	Anne Grant	AG 's father, Duncan MacVicar , was a farmer later turned army officer, as well as a poet and letter-writer: a plain, brave, pious man Grant, Anne. Memoir and Correspondence of Mrs. Grant of Laggan. Editor Grant, John Peter, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. 1: 2 whose political views were Whiggish . Paston, George, and George Paston. “Mrs. Grant of Laggan”. Little Memoirs of the Eighteenth Century, E. P. Dutton, pp. 237-96. 248 He...
Family and Intimate relationships	Eleanor Rathbone	ER 's father was the sixth William Rathbone in a Lancashire family which was Quaker , Unitarian , Liberal and philanthropic. For six generations this family had been the epitome of fair trading, plain speaking...
Family and Intimate relationships	Dorothy Brett	DB 's father, Reginald Baliol Brett , became the second Viscount Esher after his father 's death in 1899. In his capacity as a peer and courtier, Reginald Regy Brett wore distinguished hats after being...
Family and Intimate relationships	Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda	After attending Cambridge University , David Alfred Thomas , Margaret's father, became a Liberal Member of Parliament, representing Merthyr Tydfil from 1888 to 1910. Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press. 5 Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda,. This Was My World. Macmillan. 5
Family and Intimate relationships	Mary Carpenter	MC 's father, Lant Carpenter , was born on 2 September 1780 to Mary née Hooke and her husband, carpet manufacturer George Carpenter . Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Lant Carpenter His father left the family after his business...
Family and Intimate relationships	Jane Hume Clapperton	Her father, Alexander Clapperton , was a successful merchant who owned businesses in Edinburgh and Glasgow. He was also active and influential in local politics, and was known to have Liberal sympathies. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Temple, H. B., editor. “Miss Jane Hume Clapperton, Authoress”. The Women’s Penny Paper, Vol. 1 , No. 35, pp. 1-2. 1.35 (22 June 1889): 1
Family and Intimate relationships	Ann Fisher	Thomas Slack , husband of AF , published the first number of his Newcastle Chronicle; the paper continued in the family for eighty-six years, becoming a leading Liberal voice in the region. Horsley, P. M. “Some Local Ladies of the Eighteenth Century”. Heaton Works Journal, Vol. 6 , No. 33, C A Parsons and Company, pp. 131-8. 136 Rodriguez-Gil, Maria. “Deconstructing Female Conventions: Ann Fisher (1719-1778)”. Historiographia Linguistica: International Journal for the History of Language Sciences, Vol. 33 , No. 1-2, John Benjamins, pp. 11-38. 31
Family and Intimate relationships	Mary Stott	Amalia Maria Christina (Bates) Waddington , MS 's mother, came from a large, talented and gay family, with a habit of laughter and a determination not to lose touch with each other. Stott, Mary. Forgetting’s No Excuse. Faber and Faber. 16 Amalia was...
Family and Intimate relationships	Florence Nightingale	FN 's father, William Edward Nightingale , a banker's son and Cambridge-educated Whig party supporter, was a landowner, a highly cultured country gentleman of ample means. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. He was born William Edward Shore but later took...
Family and Intimate relationships	Isabella Ormston Ford	IOF 's father, Robert Lawson Ford , was a solicitor and landowner, and a Quaker who belonged to the radical wing of the Liberal Party . He supported local Quaker MP John Bright in his...
Family and Intimate relationships	Kathleen Nott	KN 's father, Philip Nott , was a lithographic printer. He was something he called a liberal, which meant he probably voted Liberal and disapproved of war, capitalism, the Labour Party , and God. He...
Family and Intimate relationships	Kate Parry Frye	KPF 's father, Frederick Charlwood Frye , attended Saffron Walden Grammar School and worked as a clerk and grocer. During the late nineteenth century his grocery business did very well, expanding into a chain, and...
Family and Intimate relationships	Elinor Glyn	EG gave birth to her second daughter (Juliet, later Rhys Williams ) on 15 December 1898. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Hardwick, Joan. Addicted to Romance: The Life and Adventures of Elinor Glyn. Andre Deutsch. 78 Juliet grew up to be most unlike her mother: a specialist in economics, politically active and devoted...

Timeline

11 November 1965

Ian Smith and the white rulers of the British colony of Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) unilaterally declared independence; the UK declared the regime illegal but did not use force against it.

November 1978

The leader of the Liberal Party , Jeremy Thorpe , was charged by a court at Minehead in Somerset with conspiracy to murder.

November 1981

Shirley Williams (daughter of Vera Brittain ) became the first member of the Gang of Four, leaders of the newly-founded Social Democratic Party , to win a seat in Parliament : for Crosby, Lancashire.

12 October 2015

The filmSuffragette opened at the London Film Festival, written by Abi Morgan and directed by Sarah Gavron .

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