House of Lords

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

The new wife (or alleged wife) of DDB 's father bore him a son; years later the son's legitimacy and claim to the family titles were recognised in Ireland but denied by the House of Lords

In 1771, the House of Lords , sitting on the question of the inheritance rights of her husband's illegitimate son, decided by one vote that her marriage licence was a forgery; however, it later emerged...

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...

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

The object of EMD 's satire is often upper-middle-class social mores. Styles of dress play a prominent role: those with artistic pretensions, for instance, are marked by their sandals and horn-rimmed glasses, sack dresses and...

MC was a member of the Albemarle Club . She also belonged to the Society of Authors , and acted as a steward (along with over a hundred other luminaries including Walter Besant

She wrote this article at the height of the parliamentary debates on the legal rights of married women. Despite being very ill, CFC was determined to participate in this discourse and give aid to a...

FPC was sent by her father to London in March 1847 because of her brother Tom 's domestic crisis. His wife and cousin Azélie eloped with one of his college friends in mid-March, and a...

FPC was concerned about women's material conditions as well as formal rights. She laboured to obtain protection for battered women: an opponent in other contexts of flogging, she believed that the only effective remedy for...

The next year she began to pursue legislation personally, asking Frederick Elliot to draft a bill for her and consulting influential connections. Introduced into the House of Lords , her bill was countered in the...

The essay provides the text of the bill she had drafted by Alfred D. Hill before she threw her weight instead behind an amendment introduced by Lord Penzance in the Lords which was able to...

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.

Attending the House of Lords on account of her friendship with Edith Summerskill, MB took close account of the Lord Chancellor, Gerald Gardiner. They began to correspond over legal matters in 1967, first met in...

Lady Cynthia Charteris married Herbert Asquith , Beb, the second son of Herbert Henry Asquith and Helen Asquith .