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House of Lords
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Antonia Fraser | AF
's father, born Francis Aungier (Frank) Pakenham, was an Oxford
academic whose subject was politics. He became the seventh Earl of Longford
in 1961, but he had already been made Baron Pakenham by Clement Attlee |
politics | Monica Furlong | 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 |
Leisure and Society | George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron | As a young man Byron lived a desultory and over-expensive life, though he was already deeply serious about his poetry. He took his seat in the House of Lords
in March 1809, the same month... |
Wealth and Poverty | Elizabeth Sarah Gooch | ESG
says that she brought a case for divorce against her husband (which, had she won it, would have marked an important precedent), but that it was turned down by the House of Lords
... |
politics | Frances Jacson | 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... |
Textual Production | Elinor James | As Elianor James, EJ
published To the Lords Spiritual and Temporal (not her only broadsheet with this title) urging the House of Lords
to pass an anti-Dissenter bill which forbade Occasional Conformity. Both EJ |
Textual Production | Elinor James | In Mrs. James's Thanks to the Lords
and Commons
for their great Sincerity to King George, EJ
again marked an anniversary in national political life and in her career as its interpreter. McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon. 308 |
Textual Features | Lucy Knox | The volume contains thirty-three poems. Lament of the loyal Irish in 1869, England and Pauperism, and England and Secular Education speak to social and political concerns, while other poems explore the disappointments of... |
Other Life Event | Maria Theresa Longworth | 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. Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press. Erickson, Arvel B., and John R. McCarthy. “The Yelverton Case: Civil Legislation and Marriage”. Victorian Studies, Vol. 14 , pp. 275-91. 283 |
Other Life Event | Maria Theresa Longworth | In 1863 Yelverton
took his case to the highest possible authority, with an appeal to the House of Lords
against the Dublin verdict. |
Textual Features | Catharine Macaulay | In the copyright row provoked by unauthorised reprints by the Edinburgh publisher Alexander Donaldson
, CM
began by asking what practices would benefit literature, and concluded that publishers needed to be able to count on... |
Textual Production | Rose Macaulay | RM
wrote in The Spectator criticising the House of Lords
verdict which acquitted Lord de Clifford
of manslaughter after he had killed someone in a road accident. The father of this Lord de Clifford had... |
politics | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | Viscountess Rhondda
petitioned the king for a writ of summons to allow her to sit as a peeress in the House of Lords
. Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press. 82 |
politics | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | The Committee of Privileges
ruled that on the basis of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919, Viscountess Rhondda
should be allowed to sit as a peeress in the House of Lords
. Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Company. 32: 1040 Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press. 82-3 Beddoe, Deirdre. Back to Home and Duty: Women Between the Wars, 1918-1939. Pandora. 143 |
politics | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | The parliamentary Committee of Privileges
, under the directorship of Lord Birkenhead
, reversed its earlier decision and refused Viscountess Rhondda
the right to sit as a peeress in the House of Lords
. Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press. 85-6 |
Timeline
1 June 1792: Charles James Fox's Libel Act passed the...
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1 June 1792
Charles James Fox
's Libel Act passed the House of Lords
. It altered the handling of libel cases (including seditious libel) in England and Wales: juries were given the right to decide, instead...
28 May-16 June 1794: Edmund Burke made his nine-day speech, spread...
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28 May-16 June 1794
Edmund Burke
made his nine-day speech, spread over the course of this period, in reply to the defence offered at the trial of Warren Hastings
.
30 June 1814: A petition against the re-opening of the...
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30 June 1814
A petition against the re-opening of the slave trade by the restored French monarchy was presented to the House of Lords
.
4 July 1828: The House of Lords affirmed Lord Eldon's...
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4 July 1828
The House of Lords
affirmed Lord Eldon
's epoch-making decision which awarded custody of three children whose mother was dead to the mother's sisters instead of to the father.
7 June 1832: The Representation of the People Act, known...
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7 June 1832
The Representation of the People Act, known as the First Reform Bill, extended the male franchise and, for the first time, explicitly excluded women from the electorate.
1838: Lord Shaftesbury first brought up for discussion...
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1838
Lord Shaftesbury
first brought up for discussion in the House of Lords
the protection of young females from vice.
1838: The Infant Custody Bill passed in the House...
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1838
The Infant Custody Bill passed in the House of Commons
but was rejected by the House of Lords
.
July 1842: Edwin Chadwick presented his Report on the...
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July 1842
Edwin Chadwick
presented his Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain to the House of Lords
.
18 May 1843: In what was called the Disruption, led by...
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18 May 1843
In what was called the Disruption, led by Thomas Chalmers
, roughly a third of the ministers and half the members of the established Presbyterian Church of Scotland
seceded on the issue of a...
5 February 1851: A public meeting of women in the Democratic...
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5 February 1851
A public meeting of women in the Democratic Temperance Hall, Sheffield, adopted the first petition for the enfranchisement of women to be submitted to both houses of parliament.
14 March 1856: A petition for Reform of the Married Women's...
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14 March 1856
A petitionfor Reform of the Married Women's Property Law, organized by the Married Women's Property Committee
and signed by many prominent women, was presented to both Houses of Parliament.
13 February 1857: Lord Brougham introduced an unsuccessful...
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13 February 1857
29 May 1868: The case of Routledge vs. Low led the House...
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29 May 1868
The case of Routledge
vs. Low led the House of Lords
to expand the meaning of British Soil to include the whole British Empire under existing copyright protection laws.
29 June 1868: A bill introduced in the House of Lords proposed...
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29 June 1868
A bill introduced in the House of Lords
proposed extending the Contagious Diseases Acts to London, and any other borough that chose to follow.
2 July 1868: An extension of the Contagious Diseases Acts...
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2 July 1868
An extension of the Contagious Diseases Acts to eleven more jurisdictions was recommended by a House of Lords
committee.
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