Liberal Party

Following the death of her husband , JFLW wrote to Sir Thomas Larcom , hoping he could help secure her a government pension. In his reply, Larcom explained that only the Prime Minister could...

In 1802 Henry Brougham helped to found the Edinburgh Review; he became a regular contributor to this reigning Whig periodical. To the first twenty numbers he contributed eighty articles on subjects ranging from science...

He was called to the English bar in that year, and began a successful law practice in London. He headed Queen Caroline's defence during her trial for adultery in 1820, and was appointed...

AG 's father, Duncan MacVicar , was a farmer later turned army officer, as well as a poet and letter-writer: a plain, brave, pious man whose political views were Whiggish . He...

Like its predecessor, this novel recalls Jane Austen , but this time the plot (at least the earlier part) is closer to that of Sense and Sensibility. Marcia, a sensible elder sister, makes a...

EG gave birth to her second daughter (Juliet, later Rhys Williams ) on 15 December 1898. Juliet grew up to be most unlike her mother: a specialist in economics, politically active and devoted...

KPF 's father, Frederick Charlwood Frye , attended Saffron Walden Grammar School and worked as a clerk and grocer. During the late nineteenth century his grocery business did very well, expanding into a chain, and...

The Frye family was actively political throughout KPF 's formative years, mostly on behalf of the Liberal Party : her mother expected Kate to attend the North Kensington Women's Liberal Association meetings hosted in the...

She was brought up in Leeds in an English, radical Quaker family with Liberal politics who were committed to humanitarian pursuits. The family was of prosperous middle-class standing, but IOF was brought up with a...

IOF 's father, Robert Lawson Ford , was a solicitor and landowner, and a Quaker who belonged to the radical wing of the Liberal Party . He supported local Quaker MP John Bright in his...

Thomas Slack , husband of AF , published the first number of his Newcastle Chronicle; the paper continued in the family for eighty-six years, becoming a leading Liberal voice in the region.

A Letter to a Late Cabinet Minister on the Current Crisis, a pamphlet in support of Lord Melbourne 's Whigs after his ministry was dismissed in 1834, sold 30,000 copies in six weeks and...

Her father, Alexander Clapperton , was a successful merchant who owned businesses in Edinburgh and Glasgow. He was also active and influential in local politics, and was known to have Liberal sympathies.

The full speech was printed the following day in Sydney's two prominent daily papers. The issue of Free Selection Before Survey was the central one in the upcoming state election. It was also the main...

MC 's father, Lant Carpenter , was born on 2 September 1780 to Mary née Hooke and her husband, carpet manufacturer George Carpenter . His father left the family after his business...