Speaker's Conference on Electoral Reform

Connections

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politics Millicent Garrett Fawcett
MGF was acutely aware of the potential represented by members of parliament, as is shown in her initiative in founding the Speaker's Conference on Electoral Reform in 1916, to bring together MPs who were prepared...
politics Marie Belloc Lowndes
The letter challenged a recent antisuffragist manifesto, and stressed three points from Prime Minister Asquith 's statement to suffragists of 14 August. The points were that women had rendered as effective service to their country...

Timeline

August 1916
Millicent Garrett Fawcett arranged a meeting between suffragists and members of parliament which resulted in the election of MPs of all parties to the Speaker's Conference on Electoral Reform .
Late November 1916
The Speaker's Conference on Electoral Reform , an all-party parliamentary group formed on an initiative of Millicent Garrett Fawcett , turned in a report which became the basis of the Act of 6 February 1918...