House of Lords

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...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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.

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...

With the help of a Turkish diplomat she met while in London, FT attended sessions in the British House of Commons and House of Lords disguised as a Turkish gentleman.

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...

In a 1992 interview, MW stated that she used to be a Republican, but that in middle age she is becoming less radical, with a larger share of royalist sympathies. She noted that there is...

Viscountess Rhondda petitioned the king for a writ of summons to allow her to sit as a peeress in the House of Lords .

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 .