Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Liberal Party
Connections
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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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Isabella Ormston Ford | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Kathleen Nott | KN
's father, Philip Nott
, was a lithographic printer. He was something he called a liberal, which meant he probably voted Liberal
and disapproved of war, capitalism, the Labour Party
, and God. He... |
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 | Elinor Glyn | EG
gave birth to her second daughter (Juliet, later Rhys Williams
) on 15 December 1898. Hardwick, Joan. Addicted to Romance: The Life and Adventures of Elinor Glyn. Andre Deutsch. 78 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Cynthia Asquith | Lady Cynthia Charteris
married Herbert Asquith
, Beb, the second son of Herbert Henry Asquith
and Helen Asquith
. Herbert Henry Asquith (later first Earl of Oxford and Asquith), 1852-1928, was at this time... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Grant | 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 Grant, Anne. Memoir and Correspondence of Mrs. Grant of Laggan. Editor Grant, John Peter, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. 1: 2 Paston, George, and George Paston. “Mrs. Grant of Laggan”. Little Memoirs of the Eighteenth Century, E. P. Dutton, pp. 237-96. 248 |
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... |
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. 5 Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda,. This Was My World. Macmillan. 5 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Brett | DB
's father, Reginald Baliol Brett
, became the second Viscount Esher after his father
's death in 1899. In his capacity as a peer and courtier, Reginald Regy Brett wore distinguished hats after being... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Carpenter | MC
's father, Lant Carpenter
, was born on 2 September 1780 to Mary née Hooke
and her husband, carpet manufacturer George Carpenter
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Lant Carpenter |
Family and Intimate relationships | Jane Hume Clapperton | 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. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Temple, H. B., editor. “Miss Jane Hume Clapperton, Authoress”. The Women’s Penny Paper, Vol. 1 , No. 35, pp. 1-2. 1.35 (22 June 1889): 1 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ann Fisher | 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. Horsley, P. M. “Some Local Ladies of the Eighteenth Century”. Heaton Works Journal, Vol. 6 , No. 33, C A Parsons and Company, pp. 131-8. 136 Rodriguez-Gil, Maria. “Deconstructing Female Conventions: Ann Fisher (1719-1778)”. Historiographia Linguistica: International Journal for the History of Language Sciences, Vol. 33 , No. 1-2, John Benjamins, pp. 11-38. 31 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Stott | Amalia Maria Christina (Bates) Waddington
, MS
's mother, came from a large, talented and gay family, with a habit of laughter and a determination not to lose touch with each other. Stott, Mary. Forgetting’s No Excuse. Faber and Faber. 16 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Florence Nightingale | FN
's father, William Edward Nightingale
, a banker's son and Cambridge-educated Whig
party supporter, was a landowner, a highly cultured country gentleman of ample means. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
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11 November 1965: Ian Smith and the white rulers of the British...
National or international item
11 November 1965
Ian Smith
and the white rulers of the British colony of Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) unilaterally declared independence; the UK declared the regime illegal but did not use force against it.
November 1978: The leader of the Liberal Party, Jeremy Thorpe,...
National or international item
November 1978
The leader of the Liberal Party
, Jeremy Thorpe
, was charged by a court at Minehead in Somerset with conspiracy to murder.
November 1981: Shirley Williams (daughter of Vera Brittain)...
Women writers item
November 1981
Shirley Williams
(daughter of Vera Brittain
) became the first member of the Gang of Four, leaders of the newly-founded Social Democratic Party
, to win a seat in Parliament
: for Crosby, Lancashire.
12 October 2015: The film Suffragette opened at the London...
Building item
12 October 2015
The filmSuffragette opened at the London Film Festival, written by Abi Morgan
and directed by Sarah Gavron
.
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