Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
House of Commons
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Guest | CG
described her wedding in detail when she resumed writing her journal three weeks after the event. When she first spoke up in church she mumbled a little, but then got her voice under control... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | Over the course of his lifetime, Frederick Pethick-Lawrence
served in the House of Commons
for eighteen years and in the House of Lords
for sixteen. He became the Secretary of State for India and for... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary, Countess Cowper | William, Earl Cowper
, husband of MCC
, was examined before a committee of the House of Commons
on suspicion of Jacobite sympathies. In 1722 the actual Jacobite conspirator Christopher Layer
, while under investigation... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Clara Balfour | Clara Lucas
, who was not yet sixteen, married James Balfour
, who worked in the Ways and Means Office in the House of Commons
. Kirk, John Foster, and S. Austin Allibone, editors. A Supplement to Allibone’s Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors. J. B. Lippincott, 1891. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Stockdale | MS
's father, John Stockdale
, having been acquitted for publishing a libel (attacking the House of Commons
over Warren Hastings
), himself printed The Whole Proceedings on the Trial . . . against John Stockdale. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 70 (1790): 582 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Linda Villari | LV
's father, James White
, was a silk merchant during her childhood and adolescence. Ancestry.co.uk. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Richardson | Elizabeth, Lady Ashburnham
, became (at St Giles in the Fields in London) the second wife of Sir Thomas Richardson
, then Speaker of the House of Commons
and Chief Justice. “FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. under Thomas Richardson |
| 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Ouida | In London, Ouida
took a suite at her old home, the Langham Hotel
, where in one night she entertained Robert Browning
, Oscar Wilde
, Robert Lytton
, and Lord Ronald Gower
... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Caroline Bowles | An appendix includes extracts from Robert Southey
's essays on factory labour, as well as transcribed interviews with factory labourers and evidence presented to the House of Commons
. Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate, 1998. 103 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sylvia Pankhurst | During the years 1987-92 and again in 1997, Jacqueline Mulhallen
toured England and Ireland with a one-woman show about SP
(at first intended just for schools in London's East End). The performance was accompanied by... |
| Literary responses | Catharine Macaulay | The intellectual influence of CM
's History was particularly important for the generation of American patriots who shaped the United States. Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press, 1992. 184-5 |
| Literary responses | Mary Agnes Hamilton | Virginia Woolf
read this novel soon after its publication, with fascinated disapproval. She felt that MAH
had energy and ability, and the wits to construct the method of telling a story, but that she had... |
| Literary responses | B. M. Croker | BMC
was charmed to see myself in print, but . . . awaited with terror the reviews. She hoped, in fact, that a certain great weekly journal (probably All the Year Round, formerly Household... |
| Literary responses | George Eliot | Lewes
, who wrote that if the book was not a hit I will never more trust my judgement in such matters, Eliot, George. The George Eliot Letters. Haight, Gordon S.Editor , Yale University Press, 1978. 3: 10 |
Timeline
20 January 1265
Simon de Montfort
, statesman and leader of a rebellion against King Henry III
(his brother-in-law), summoned an assembly, including two knights from each county and two elected representatives of each borough, to bolster support...
November 1382
The House of Commons
requested Richard II
to make use of wise officers and honest and discreet councillors.
Saul, Nigel. Richard II. Yale University Press, 1997.
81
4 January 1642
Charles I
entered the House of Commons
with the intention of arresting the five men he regarded as opposition ringleaders, including Pym
and Hampden
; the result was a public-relations defeat for the monarchy.
1 February 1642
London women petitioned the House of Commons
for peace; a second petition followed three days later.
23 April 1649
London women brought the Petition of divers wel-affected women before the House of Commons
demanding the release of John Lilburne
and other Levellers
.
25 November 1689
The House of Commons
accepted the final wording of the Revolution Settlement, or what became known as the Bill of Rights, the nearest thing to a British constitution.
October 1710
The Tories won a large majority in the general election, leading to a predominantly Tory ministry under the leadership of Robert Harley
.
9 December 1719
The House of Commons
received a petition from merchants of Bristol complaining that fashionable imports of India Chints, Callicoes and Linen
Perkins, Joe. “Searchers, not Planners”. London Review of Books, pp. 37 - 9.
37
3 June 1720
The House of Commons
agreed to amendments from the Lords
to the Transportation of Felons Act, for banishing convicted criminals.
18 May 1723
The Black Act (originally directed against night-time poaching) passed the House of Commons
.
3-30 April 1735
Sir John Barnard
's bill for regulating the theatres and limiting the number of companies failed to pass the House of Commons
, but generated much heated debate over theatre reform.
Just before 15 May 1738
Captain Robert Jenkins
displayed to the House of Commons
(as an incentive to declaring war against Spain) his severed ear.
1752
The Disorderly Houses Act was directed against bawdy houses in the London area: all places of public entertainment (music, dancing, etc.) now had to be licensed by justices of the peace.
23 April 1763
John Wilkes
and Charles Churchill
's North Briton number 45 attacked the king's speech; the arrest of Wilkes and the printers followed.
17 December 1765
The king's speech in the House of Commons
mentioned that matters of importance had occurred in America and made anodyne promises of diligence and attention.
Thomas, Peter David Garner. British Politics and the Stamp Act Crisis: The First Phase of the American Revolution, 1763-1767. Clarendon, 1975.
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