Committee of Privileges

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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. 12th ed., Encyclopædia Britannica Company, 1922, 3 vols.
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Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press, 1991.
82-3
Beddoe, Deirdre. Back to Home and Duty: Women Between the Wars, 1918-1939. Pandora, 1989.
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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, 1991.
85-6
politics Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda
Opposition peers forced a second hearing, enlarging the Committee of Privileges to twenty-six members in order to tip the scale.
Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press, 1991.
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