Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Conservative Party
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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death | Benjamin Disraeli | His death date became known as Primrose Day, from his association with the spring flower which he was said to love. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | May Crommelin | After this, run-of-the-mill romance for a long time eclipses the potentially subversive hunting angle. Jack and Violet are of course attracted to each other; from the first he is curious to see . .... |
Occupation | John Wilson Croker | JWC
became a lawyer, (moving from Ireland to London after the Act of Union) a Tory
MP, an editor of several eighteenth-century texts (including letters by Lady Hervey
and by Henrietta Howard, Lady Suffolk
)... |
Textual Production | Frances Power Cobbe | On the day that John Stuart Mill
presented to Parliament
the second suffrage petition of the week, FPC
placed a double-column letter in the high Tory
paper the Day supporting Female Franchise, and signed... |
politics | Frances Power Cobbe | FPC
continued to involve herself in the anti-vivisection and suffrage movements after her move to Wales. When the Conservative
government came into power in 1886 she pressed for female enfranchisement through party connections. In 1888... |
Occupation | Barbara Cartland | BC
was elected, as a Conservative
member for Hatfield, to the HertfordshireCounty Council
, where she served until 1964. Heald, Tim. A Life of Love: The Life of Barbara Cartland. Sinclair-Stevenson. 139-41 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Burnet | |
Cultural formation | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | The father's side of MEB
's family were landowners with a well-established estate at Skisdon Lodge, St Kew, Cornwall, though her father had trained to earn his living. In an interview in 1888 she... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Louisa Baldwin | A Worcestershire ironmaster, Alfred Baldwin also served as a Conservative
Member of Parliament from 1892. Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Timeline
27 October 1931: Irene Ward (later Dame Irene) was elected...
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27 October 1931
Irene Ward
(later Dame Irene) was elected for the Conservatives
to the British Parliament
, where she remained for thirty-eight of the next forty-two years, making her the longest-serving woman MP.
14 November 1935: A general election was held in Britain. The...
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14 November 1935
A general election was held in Britain. The Conservative Party
polled most votes, and the National Coalition government was returned to power.
28 May 1937: Neville Chamberlain, as Conservative leader...
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28 May 1937
Neville Chamberlain
, as Conservative
leader within the coalition government called National, became British Prime Minister following Stanley Baldwin
's resignation.
26 July 1945: The postwar general election put the Labour...
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26 July 1945
The postwar general election put the Labour Party
in power with a landslide victory. Clement Attlee
became Prime Minister; prominent in his Cabinet were Herbert Morrison
, Ernest Bevin
, Hugh Dalton
, and Sir...
Early 1948: In the spring the Conservative Party established...
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Early 1948
In the spring the Conservative Party
established the Committee on Women's Questions
, chaired by Malcolm McCorquodale
.
March 1949: The Committee on Women's Questions issued...
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March 1949
The Committee on Women's Questions
issued its report, A True Balance, which recommended that the Conservative Party
should pursue equal pay when it regained office.
February 1951: The Bow Group was founded as an organisation...
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February 1951
The Bow Group
was founded as an organisation of younger members of the Conservative Party
, to carry out and publish research on political issues.
Late 1951: Winston Churchill's Conservative government...
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Late 1951
Winston Churchill
's Conservative
government decided to remove the last traces of wartime austerity by ending the rationing system: it took them until 1954 to complete this process with the end of meat rationing.
6 April 1955: Sir Anthony Eden became Prime Minister and...
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6 April 1955
Sir Anthony Eden
became Prime Minister and new leader of the Conservative Party
, following Churchill
's resignation.
26 May 1955: At the general election the Conservative...
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26 May 1955
At the general election the Conservative Party
increased its majority (it had a particular majority among women voters); the number of women MPs went up from seventeen to twenty-four.
8 October 1959: In the general election the Conservatives...
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8 October 1959
In the general election the Conservatives
under Harold Macmillan
increased their majority. Margaret Thatcher
(who had first stood for the safe Labour seat of Dartford in 1950) was elected Conservative member of parliament for Finchley.
November 1959: At the Labour Party conference in the wake...
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November 1959
At the Labour Party
conference in the wake of Conservative
electoral victory, leader Hugh Gaitskell
proposed repealing Clause 4 of the party's constitution, the clause that set the goal of common ownership of the means...
July 1962: In a surprise move later called the night...
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July 1962
In a surprise move later called the night of the long knives, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan
replaced a third of his Cabinet
.
15 October 1964: The Labour Party came to precarious power...
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15 October 1964
The Labour Party
came to precarious power in the general election by a majority of four seats; next day Harold Wilson
became Prime Minister.
19 June 1970: The day after a surprise Conservative victory...
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19 June 1970
The day after a surprise Conservative
victory in the general election, Edward Heath
formed the government (succeeding to the Labour
administration of Harold Wilson
).
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