Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Winifred Maxwell
36 results for Catholic for Politics
Winifred Maxwell, Countess of Nithsdale
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
, organized a petition and went to court to present it herself to the king (whom she, like other Jacobites, called the Elector). When
refused to take the paper; she clutched his robes and held on while he dragged her bodily across the room. This violence on the part of the monarch made a bad impression; Lady Nithsdale became a focus of sympathy and even something of a popular heroine. The petition was in the end read to the king, but it did not have the desired effect.
Charlotte Grace O'Brien
later underwent a period of divided allegiance which resulted in disillusionment with the Irish political movement. When the story of Parnell's adultery broke and the Catholic Church turned against him, she continued to support him. But during the last part of her life she shifted her activities in the direction of her interest in the developments of co-operation and mutual credit associations . . . and in the work of the Gaelic League.
Dorothy Richardson
With varying degrees of commitment (usually minor), Richardson immersed herself in various philosophical movements of the period. She did much of her reading at the
's Reading Room, which she revered, but elsewhere she sat in both on casual discussions and on more formal meetings about contemporary politics and religion. She tried such political organizations as the
, Conservative
, suffragists, Russian anarchist, and the
, whose meetings she attended between about 1903 and 1906. Among religious denominations, she sampled
,
, and
congregations. She considered them fascinating secret societies to each of which in turn I wished to belong and yet was held back, returning to solitude and to nowhere, where alone I could be everywhere at once, hearing all the voices in chorus.
Christopher St John
She was arrested in 1909 for setting a pillar box on fire. She worked for the
, the
(which she helped found), the
(of which she was a committee member), the
, and the
. She and Craig also worked with
and the
after it broke away from the WSPU.
Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
Although
was fiercely anti-Catholic, she also took up the plight of the Irish factory workers; she remained deeply interested in the Irish people until her death. During her time in London she worked for improved living conditions for the Irish community.
Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady Tyrwhit
Lady Tyrwhit and her husband continued to prosper through the reign of
. Susan M. Felch points out that long before she was a persecutor of Protestants, Mary had participated in the humanist reforms that had sought to make bible study central to the Christian life. When Elizabeth I came to the throne she seems to have favoured the Tyrwhits not more but less than did her
half-sister, though Sir Robert Tyrwhit continued to hold important offices locally.
Elizabeth Walker
In 1685, perhaps in connection with the death of
and the succession of the openly Catholic
, suffered some form of persecution for ten days and seems to have been sent to prison at Tilbury. Not surprisingly he welcomed the Glorious Revolution which saw James succeeded by the Protestant champion
.
Evelyn Waugh
Having been in his youth a kind of radical, a debunker of traditional holders of power and influence,
veered to the right. He is remembered as a Tory (and before World War Two a sympathiser with fascism) as well as an upholder of the Catholic religion. In 1951 he wrote that he had never voted in a general election as I have never found a Tory stern enough to command my respect. In his later years he saw himself as a withdrawn and embittered critic of modern society.
Agnes Wenman
Although married to a member of the Established Church,
was interrogated after
attempted to overthrow the government, as a suspected Catholic activist.
Amabel Williams-Ellis
On this trip Williams-Ellis was denied an interview with
but spoke briefly with Dr
of the Ministry of the Interior. She soon returned to Berlin on a second journey on behalf of other prisoners of conscience; on that occasion she and her delegation attended at Nazi rally led by Goebbels. Shortly after this second visit she travelled to New York City, where she testified before the
on her observations of the persecution of Jews and Catholics in Germany.
Maria De Fleury
's first publicised brush with politics involved her membership of the
, her support for
and her approval of the anti-Catholic Gordon riots.