Liberal Party

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...

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...

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...

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...

RK suffered a series of blows as he grew older which left him increasingly bitter and withdrawn.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...

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...

MBL 's anonymous Sir Edward Grey, K. G. (a Liberal and then Foreign Secretary, later first Viscount Grey of Fallodon ), 1915, is in 2008 ascribed to her in the Bodleian Library but not in...

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

In 1834 HM published Letter to the Deaf in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine. Around 1837 she was asked to take charge of an Economical Magazine at a good salary, which she thought opened the prospect...

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...

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...

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. He was born William Edward Shore but later took...

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...