Middle Temple

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Education	John Buchan	After going to school in several different towns as his father was allotted to various parishes, JB went on a scholarship to Glasgow University , where he specialised in classics and was taught by Gilbert Murray
Education	William Congreve	WC attended Trinity College , Dublin, where he was a fellow-student of Swift . Back in England he became a law student at the Middle Temple , but soon drifted away from the law towards a literary life. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Education	Henry Fielding	HF attended Eton , and four years after leaving school enrolled for a while at the University of Leiden . After the premature end of his career as a theatre manager he enrolled as a...
Education	William Makepeace Thackeray	This trip allowed him to study German culture and language. He also undertook a number of writing projects, although none were published. On his return to London he studied law at the Middle Temple ...
Family and Intimate relationships	Frances Sarah Hoey	A member of the Young Ireland party, and later a knight of Malta, John Hoey was also a prominent Irish journalist and was one of the revivers of the Nation in 1849. In November 1861...

Timeline

23 December 1919

The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act received royal assent. It removed restrictions based on sex or marriage which prevented women from entering professions, universities, and civic posts.

Pugh, Martin. Women and the Women’s Movement in Britain 1914 - 1959. Macmillan Education, 1992.

108

Law Reports: Statutes. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1866–2024.

(1919): 325-6

Lorwin, Val R., and Sarah Boston. “Great Britain”. Women and Trade Unions in Eleven Industrialized Countries, edited by Alice H. Cook et al., Temple University Press, 1984, pp. 140-61.

151

Murphy, Gillian. “Newly Available Archives: Papers of Helena Normanton”. Women’s Library Newsletter, 1 Sept.–28 Feb. 2007, p. back page.

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17 November 1922

Feminist and suffragist Helena Normanton (1882-1957) became the the second woman called to the English bar; she was the first woman to practise as a barrister in the High Court of Justice .

Brakeman, Lynne, and Susan Gall, editors. Chronology of Women Worldwide: People, Places and Events that Shaped Women’s History. Gale Research, 1997.

341

Greenspan, Karen. The Timetables of Women’s History. Simon and Shuster, 1994.

322

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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