Liberal Party

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Family and Intimate relationships Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda
After attending Cambridge University , David Alfred Thomas , Margaret's father, became a Liberal Member of Parliament, representing Merthyr Tydfil from 1888 to 1910.
Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press, 1991.
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Rhondda, Margaret Haig, Viscountess. This Was My World. Macmillan, 1933.
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Family and Intimate relationships Kate Parry Frye
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Eleanor Rathbone
ER 's father was the sixth William Rathbone in a Lancashire family which was Quaker , Unitarian , Liberal and philanthropic. For six generations this family had been the epitome of fair trading, plain speaking...
Friends, Associates Virginia Woolf
Bloomsbury came to designate a new sensibility in philosophy, literature, art, and politics, and its growth has been linked with the crucial break between the Edwardians and the Georgians, the point when human character...
Literary responses Harriet Martineau
The Illustrations catapulted HM into fame: she was lionized by London society. She received flattering responses from Coleridge and from her precursor as a political economist, Jane Marcet .
Chapman, Maria Weston, and Harriet Martineau. “Memorials of Harriet Martineau”. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography, James R. Osgood, 1877, pp. 2: 131 - 596.
212, 214
Christian Isobel Johnstone in...
Literary responses Eleanor Rathbone
Opponents of ER 's plans included members of the Conservative , Liberal , and Labour parties, though the Independent Labour Party gave the plans its official support in 1926. In 1925 some members of the...
Occupation Henry Peter Baron Brougham
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...
Occupation Henry Peter Baron Brougham
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...
Occupation Thomas Babington first Baron Macaulay
TBBM received his first public attention after publishing an essay on Milton in the Edinburgh Review. He later sat for the Whig Party in Parliament . There he took a role in passing the...
politics Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
The magistrate sentenced eleven women (ten arrested outside parliament and one, Sylvia Pankhurst , arrested at the court) to two months in Holloway Prison's second division (which at this time held convicted criminals, while...
politics Queen Victoria
QV 's 1837-1901 reign was the longest of any British monarch. By taking a dedicated and active role in the rule of her country—despite her assertion that I never interfere in politics
qtd. in
Lytton, Edith, Countess of. Lady Lytton’s Court Diary, 1895-1899. Editor Lutyens, Mary, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1961.
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—she helped...
politics Annie S. Swan
In the light of the First World War and its aftermath, ASS 's latent interest in politics came to life, taking the form of a desire to serve the League of Nations (whose later fall...
politics Constance Smedley
Living at Minchinhampton opened Smedley's eyes to the poverty and deprivation prevalent in the English countryside, and from a moderate Conservative she became an active Liberal supporter. The Pageant of Progress, which charted the...
politics Rudyard Kipling
When the Liberal Party came to power in Britain in 1906 he judged its government corrupt. He disapproved of its handling of strikes by workers between 1910 and 1912, and even more of its...
politics Rudyard Kipling
RK suffered a series of blows as he grew older which left him increasingly bitter and withdrawn. He put aside his differences with the Liberal government in 1914 in order to assist the national effort...

Timeline

5 March 1894: The Earl of Rosebery (Liberal) became Prime...

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5 March 1894

The Earl of Rosebery (Liberal ) became Prime Minister after Gladstone 's resignation.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491

5 December 1905: Liberal leader Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman,...

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5 December 1905

Liberal leader Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman , a known supporter of women's suffrage, formed the government of the UK, following the surprise resignation of Conservative Arthur James Balfour .
Butler, David E., and Jennie Freeman. British Political Facts, 1900-1960. Macmillan, 1963.
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Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History 1714-1987. 2nd ed., Longman, 1988.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491

7 February 1906: A general election brought the Liberal Party...

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7 February 1906

A general election brought the Liberal Party to power in Britain by a great majority.
Seymour, David, and Emily Seymour, editors. A Century of News. Contender Books, 2003.

7 April 1908: Herbert Henry Asquith (Liberal) became the...

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7 April 1908

Herbert Henry Asquith (Liberal ) became the British Prime Minister following the resignation of Campbell-Bannerman .
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
115
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Sramek, Joseph. “Lloyd George’s ’People’s Budget’, and the Parliamentary Act of 1911, 12 June 1998”. History and Politics: Modern British History.

November 1909: The controversial People's Budget of David...

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November 1909

The controversial People's Budget of David Lloyd George passed successfully through the House of Commons ; three weeks later, however, it was vetoed by the Lords .
Sramek, Joseph. “Lloyd George’s ’People’s Budget’, and the Parliamentary Act of 1911, 12 June 1998”. History and Politics: Modern British History.

January 1910: A general election was fought in Britain...

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January 1910

A general election was fought in Britain on the issue of Lloyd George 's people's budget of the previous year: the combined Conservative and [Ulster] Unionist Parties came in only two votes behind the Liberals

20 December 1910: A general election resulted in a tie between...

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20 December 1910

A general election resulted in a tie between the Liberal and Tory parties.
Seymour, David, and Emily Seymour, editors. A Century of News. Contender Books, 2003.

7 November 1911: The British Prime Minister, Herbert Henry...

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7 November 1911

The British Prime Minister, Herbert Henry Asquith , told members of the People's Suffrage Federation that his Liberal government would bring forward, next session, a Manhood Suffrage Bill or Reform Bill.
Lytton, Constance. Prisons and Prisoners. Heinemann, 1914.
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Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
116-17, 171

1912: The Liberal Government began censoring Votes...

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1912

The Liberal Government began censoring Votes for Women, the Women's Social and Political Union 's weekly journal.
Holton, Sandra Stanley. “Women and the Vote”. Women’s History: Britain, 1850-1945, edited by June Purvis and June Purvis, University College London, 1995, pp. 277-05.
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Williams, Val, and Susan Bright. How We Are: Photographing Britain. Tate Publishing, 2007.
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11 April 1912: Asquith brought forward the Liberal party's...

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11 April 1912

Asquith brought forward the Liberal party 's third Home Rule Bill for Ireland (since 1886) in return for election support from John Redmond of the Irish Party .
“Living Heritage. Parliament and Ireland. Third Home Rule Bill”. www. parliament.uk.

May 1912: The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies...

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May 1912

The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies established the Election Fighting Fund to allow it to support Labour candidates in constituencies where a Liberal anti-suffragist was running.
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
144-5

17 June 1912: The Liberals' long-promised Franchise Bill...

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17 June 1912

The Liberal s' long-promised Franchise Bill passed its first reading in the House of Commons; its second reading followed on 12 July 1912.
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
172

14 December 1918: The post-war general election (sometimes...

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14 December 1918

The post-war general election (sometimes called the coupon election) was the first in which some British women (those over thirty with a property qualification of their own or their husband's) voted.
Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Life of Emmeline Pankhurst. Kraus Reprint, 1969.
166
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
356
Davies, Emily. “Chronology, Introduction”. Collected Letters, 1861-1875, edited by Ann E. Murphy and Deirdre Raftery, University of Virginia Press, 2004, p. ix - xii, xix-lv.
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“The 1918 coupon general election”. Liberal Democrat History Group.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944.
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“Houses of the Oireachtas—Where it began!”. Houses of the Oireachtas / Tithe an Oireachtas.

15 November 1922: In the British general election the Conservative...

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15 November 1922

In the British general election the Conservative Party , under its recently-elected leader Bonar Law , won a majority of 77, ending David Lloyd George 's Liberal -Conservative coalition.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

6 December 1923: A general election was held in Britain....

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6 December 1923

A general election was held in Britain.
Spartacus Educational. 28 Feb. 2003, http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/.
under UK General Election 1923

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