Liberal Party

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...

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...

After attending Cambridge University , David Alfred Thomas , Margaret's father, became a Liberal Member of Parliament, representing Merthyr Tydfil from 1888 to 1910.

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...

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 .Christian Isobel Johnstone in...

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...

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...

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...

ML had strong political views, and she frequently addressed political subjects in her novels. She was critical of English governance, and presented the misery and poverty of Irish peasants as worse than that of their...

Up until 1912, the NUWSS had been associated with the Liberal Party ; however, the Liberals' refusal to consider women's suffrage and the Labour Party 's recent concern for it caused the society to change...

Henrietta Mendl (later GHS ) campaigned for the Liberals before the general election held on 7 February, in which her brother-in-law Sigi Mendl was standing for the Liberals at Stockton-on-Tees.

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...

He supported the Whig Party . These party sympathies were cemented through his friendship with Byron , an ardent Whig.

Her predecessors had argued that it was impossible for two women to oversee all education of girls in London (while boys had forty-seven men attending to their interests). Nevertheless HM , flying her stripes with...