House of Lords

Having twice refused a title, AT accepted, at the urging of Queen Victoria , a baronetcy and seat in the House of Lords , becoming the first English writer to be raised to the peerage.

She loved her job, or her career. When in 1716 her husband was considering retiring from court and living in the country, she generously offered if he wished to quit too, and what was more...

On 27 September 1946 MGM complained to the BBC about an allegedly hostile review by EAR . This led her to a court battle. The High Court awarded her £1,500 in libel damages, but on...

The deaths of both her parents did not put an end to the family's internecine strife. In April 1771, the House of Lords judged her mother's marriage certificate to be a forgery, though the evidence...

The House of Lords , the highest court of appeal, found in favour of William Charles Yelverton in declaring that his marriage to MTL was not legally valid.

In 1863 Yelverton took his case to the highest possible authority, with an appeal to the House of Lords against the Dublin verdict.

After receiving her title, MHVR was still barred from attending proceedings of the House of Lords . When the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act was passed in 1919, there was still no progress to admit into...

This prompted Lady Rhondda to call the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act a leaky saucepan.Millicent Garrett Fawcett called this decision simply scandalous.Nancy, Lady Astor , chair of the Consultative Committee of Women's Organizations

A group of upper-class Opposition women caused a politically-angled disturbance at the House of Lords : they included Mary Pendarves (later MD ).

WMCN 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 House of Lords , organized a petition...

Thomas Noon Talfourd gave notice early in 1837 of a House of Commons motion on this subject, and the Bill was printed. But immediately after this CN 's husband relented and allowed her to see...

MF founded the Group for Rescinding the Act of Synod or GRAS at an evening meeting held in the Moses Room of the House of Lords , Westminster, and hosted by novelist Ruth Rendell

The Bristol riots in favour of electoral reform (and their savage suppression) helped to arouse a deep interest in MC in the welfare of the poor and uneducated.

FJ was a Whig in politics and late in her life a reformist. She followed the slow gestation of the Reform Bill with close interest. When the House of Lords rejected the Bill in September...

As a member of the House of Lords , RR took the work (speaking as well as attending) seriously. She said: At first I felt absolutely trapped and imprisoned. . . . But gradually you...